As natural gas production and usage continues to increase, displacing oil and coal, there is an escalating requirement to ensure that natural-gas burning equipment performs as cleanly and efficiently as possible to allow the environmental advantages of this fuel to be realized. Presented are encouraging results obtained from the three-dimensional, elliptic, CMC modeling of a low-swirl-stabilized nonpremixed flame of methane, which are representative of such technologies. Calculations were based upon the solution of the three-dimensional fluid-flow equations supplemented with a Reynolds stress and scalar flux second-moment closure, and the chemistry applied to represent mean production rates of species was a 16-step reduced mechanism. Predictions of species in both mixture fraction and real space display a level of conformity with experimental data that is encouraging for these methods in both a qualitative and a quantitative sense. Shortcomings of the modeling procedures are discussed in light of the results, and suggestions are made for future investigation. (C) 2007 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.