  With the rise in wood stove use in recent years, a number of experimental
research efforts have been undertaken with the objective of developing cleaner,
and more efficient stove designs. However, numerical modeling of stoves is
still in its nascent years, thus making it imperative to start adapting more
mature computational techniques, established in other combustion-based
applications (e.g., combustion engines), to wood stoves. This study focuses on
a critical review of the state-of-the-art in wood combustion modeling
techniques and on providing recommendations for needed enhancements. In order
to develop an optimum conceptual numerical model for wood stoves, the basic
processes inside the stove are broken down and isolated into generic
computational domains: surface reactions, gas reactions, and the fluid domain.
Then state-of-the-art numerical efforts for wood stove and similar applications
are broken down in a similar manner to highlight points of strength and
possible improvements. Finally, based on the comparison between the different
models, an improved modeling approach is proposed as a road map for future
research efforts to achieve a higher fidelity wood stove numerical model.
