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Title: Flow structure and combustion in nonpremixed turbulent bluff-body stabilized flames

Abstract

The flow structures and combustion characteristics of bluff-body stabilized flames were studied using planar flow visualization and direct flame photography. In the planar flow visualization the fuel was seeded with alumina particles and a thin sheet of laser light was used to illuminate the field of view. Mie scattering from the particles in the illuminated plane was then recorded on photographic film. For fixed fuel velocity and low air velocity the particle streak photographs showed a three-dimensional vortical flow structure near the burner face that acted to stabilize the flame at the bluff-body face. For high air velocity, the vortical structures were not observed and the flames were detached. In this case, the fuel jet stagnates on the axis, which stabilizes the flame away from the burner face. Short-exposure Mie scattering images were used to provide detailed information about the turbulent structures that occur in bluff-body flames. These structures can be large, irregular and time varying. It is concluded that instantaneous planar imaging diagnostic techniques are very useful for the characterization of these flames. The experimental results obtained in this study are anticipated to provide new insight into the combustion characteristics of bluff-body flames, insight that should prove useful inmore » developing the next generation of computer models describing such flames. 8 refs., 6 figs., 4 tabs.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
7158813
Report Number(s):
SAND-86-8695; CONF-860804-17
ON: DE88011807
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DR00789
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 21. international symposium on combustion, Munich, F.R. Germany, 3 Aug 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; FLAMES; COMBUSTION PROPERTIES; FLOW MODELS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; STREAK PHOTOGRAPHY; COMBUSTION; FLAME PROPAGATION; FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS; FUEL-AIR RATIO; GAS FLOW; IGNITION; MIXING; TURBULENT FLOW; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FLUID FLOW; FUEL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; 421000* - Engineering- Combustion Systems

Citation Formats

Namazian, M, Kelly, J, Schefer, R W, and Johnston, S C. Flow structure and combustion in nonpremixed turbulent bluff-body stabilized flames. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Namazian, M, Kelly, J, Schefer, R W, & Johnston, S C. Flow structure and combustion in nonpremixed turbulent bluff-body stabilized flames. United States.
Namazian, M, Kelly, J, Schefer, R W, and Johnston, S C. 1986. "Flow structure and combustion in nonpremixed turbulent bluff-body stabilized flames". United States.
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abstractNote = {The flow structures and combustion characteristics of bluff-body stabilized flames were studied using planar flow visualization and direct flame photography. In the planar flow visualization the fuel was seeded with alumina particles and a thin sheet of laser light was used to illuminate the field of view. Mie scattering from the particles in the illuminated plane was then recorded on photographic film. For fixed fuel velocity and low air velocity the particle streak photographs showed a three-dimensional vortical flow structure near the burner face that acted to stabilize the flame at the bluff-body face. For high air velocity, the vortical structures were not observed and the flames were detached. In this case, the fuel jet stagnates on the axis, which stabilizes the flame away from the burner face. Short-exposure Mie scattering images were used to provide detailed information about the turbulent structures that occur in bluff-body flames. These structures can be large, irregular and time varying. It is concluded that instantaneous planar imaging diagnostic techniques are very useful for the characterization of these flames. The experimental results obtained in this study are anticipated to provide new insight into the combustion characteristics of bluff-body flames, insight that should prove useful in developing the next generation of computer models describing such flames. 8 refs., 6 figs., 4 tabs.},
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year = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
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