TY - JOUR
T1 - Counterflow diffusion flames of general fluids
T2 - Oxygen/hydrogen mixtures
AU - Ribert, Guillaume
AU - Zong, Nan
AU - Yang, Vigor
AU - Pons, Laetitia
AU - Darabiha, Nasser
AU - Candel, Sébastien
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant FA 9550-04-1-0014, and partly sponsored by NASA through a Constellation University Institutes Project (CUIP) Grant. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support and advice given by Mitat Birkan, Claudia Meyer, Jeff Rybak, and Kevin Tucker.
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - A comprehensive framework has been established for studying laminar counterflow diffusion flames for general fluids over the entire regime of thermodynamic states. The model incorporates a unified treatment of fundamental thermodynamic and transport theories into an existing flow solver DMCF to treat detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms and multispecies transport. The resultant scheme can thus be applied to fluids in any state. Both subcritical and supercritical conditions are considered. As a specific example, diluted and undiluted H2/O2 flames are investigated at pressures of 1-25 MPa and oxygen inlet temperatures of 100 and 300 K. The effects of pressure p and strain rate ε{lunate}s on the heat release rate over(q, ̇)s, extinction limit, and flame structure are examined. In addition, the impact of cross-diffusion terms, such as the Soret and Dufour effects, on the flame behavior is assessed. Results indicate that the flame thickness δf and heat release rate correlate well with the square root of the pressure multiplied by the strain rate as δf ∼ 1 / sqrt(p ε{lunate}s) and over(q, ̇)s ∼ sqrt(p ε{lunate}s), respectively. The strain rate at the extinction limit exhibits a quasi-linear dependence on p. Significant real-fluid effects take place in the transcritical regimes, as evidenced by the steep property variations in the local flowfield. However, their net influence on the flame properties appears to be limited due to the ideal-gas behavior of fluids in the high-temperature zone.
AB - A comprehensive framework has been established for studying laminar counterflow diffusion flames for general fluids over the entire regime of thermodynamic states. The model incorporates a unified treatment of fundamental thermodynamic and transport theories into an existing flow solver DMCF to treat detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms and multispecies transport. The resultant scheme can thus be applied to fluids in any state. Both subcritical and supercritical conditions are considered. As a specific example, diluted and undiluted H2/O2 flames are investigated at pressures of 1-25 MPa and oxygen inlet temperatures of 100 and 300 K. The effects of pressure p and strain rate ε{lunate}s on the heat release rate over(q, ̇)s, extinction limit, and flame structure are examined. In addition, the impact of cross-diffusion terms, such as the Soret and Dufour effects, on the flame behavior is assessed. Results indicate that the flame thickness δf and heat release rate correlate well with the square root of the pressure multiplied by the strain rate as δf ∼ 1 / sqrt(p ε{lunate}s) and over(q, ̇)s ∼ sqrt(p ε{lunate}s), respectively. The strain rate at the extinction limit exhibits a quasi-linear dependence on p. Significant real-fluid effects take place in the transcritical regimes, as evidenced by the steep property variations in the local flowfield. However, their net influence on the flame properties appears to be limited due to the ideal-gas behavior of fluids in the high-temperature zone.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.combustflame.2008.04.023
DO - 10.1016/j.combustflame.2008.04.023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:47849130873
VL - 154
SP - 319
EP - 330
JO - Combustion and Flame
JF - Combustion and Flame
SN - 0010-2180
IS - 3
ER -