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Creating such a complete mathematical model is particularly challenging; therefore, the present study proposes a versatile alternative\u2014an originally formulated generalized 3D biomass decomposition model designed to be efficiently integrated with existing CFD technology. The biomass decomposition model provides the chemical composition and mixture fractions of volatile products and char at the cell level, while the heat transfer, species transport, and chemical reaction calculations are to be handled by the CFD software. The combustion model has two separate units: the static modeling that produces a macro function returning source\/sink terms and local material properties, and the dynamic modeling that tightly couples the first unit output with the CFD environment independently of the initial biomass composition, using main component fractions as initial data. This article introduces the generalized 3D biomass decomposition model formulation and some aspects related to the CFD framework implementation, while the numerical modeling and testing shall be presented in a second article.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/en13236232","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,26]],"date-time":"2020-11-26T09:04:15Z","timestamp":1606381455000},"page":"6232","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Mathematical Model of Biomass Combustion Physical and Chemical Processes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Florin","family":"Popescu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, \u201cDunarea de Jos\u201d University of Galati, 800008 Galat, Romania"}]},{"given":"Razvan","family":"Mahu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, \u201cDunarea de Jos\u201d University of Galati, 800008 Galat, Romania"}]},{"given":"Ion V.","family":"Ion","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, \u201cDunarea de Jos\u201d University of Galati, 800008 Galat, Romania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6899-8442","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eugen","family":"Rusu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, \u201cDunarea de Jos\u201d University of Galati, 800008 Galat, Romania"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"121","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pecs.2008.08.001","article-title":"Combustion and gasification rates of lignocellulosic chars","volume":"35","year":"2009","journal-title":"Prog. 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