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The GASP code was improved to need the demands of COIL simulation by the addition of a conservative, multicomponent molecular diffusion model to ensure accurate molecular diffusion transport modelling. Additionally, a 13 reaction, 10 species finite rate chemistry model was developed with the GASP thermo-chemical database for use with chemistry modelling capability. A series of 3-D simulations of the COIL flowfield were performed and compared to detailed species distributions measurements from experiment for the purposes of validation using a unique averaging technique that mimics the actual physics of the experimental gain measurement. These detailed comparisons demonstrate that the simulation model accurately predicts the experimentally measured distributions, a significant result in 3-D simulation of reacting flows. Important findings from the validated simulations include: strong evidence indicating the presence of H$\\sb2$O condensation in the COIL mixingnozzle, establishing the mechanism for mixing between the primary and secondary streams as being a combination of the diffusive mixing and distortion of the secondary jet after penetration into the primary flow resulting in rapid O$\\sb2(\\sp1\\Delta)$ mixing into the secondary fluid, establishing the I$\\sb2$ dissociation process as chemistry limited for the COIL configuration investigated here, and demonstrating that pressure gradient diffusion is not a significant factor in the COIL flowfield. 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Additionally, a 13 reaction, 10 species finite rate chemistry model was developed with the GASP thermo-chemical database for use with chemistry modelling capability. A series of 3-D simulations of the COIL flowfield were performed and compared to detailed species distributions measurements from experiment for the purposes of validation using a unique averaging technique that mimics the actual physics of the experimental gain measurement. These detailed comparisons demonstrate that the simulation model accurately predicts the experimentally measured distributions, a significant result in 3-D simulation of reacting flows. Important findings from the validated simulations include: strong evidence indicating the presence of H$\\sb2$O condensation in the COIL mixingnozzle, establishing the mechanism for mixing between the primary and secondary streams as being a combination of the diffusive mixing and distortion of the secondary jet after penetration into the primary flow resulting in rapid O$\\sb2(\\sp1\\Delta)$ mixing into the secondary fluid, establishing the I$\\sb2$ dissociation process as chemistry limited for the COIL configuration investigated here, and demonstrating that pressure gradient diffusion is not a significant factor in the COIL flowfield. 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