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Title: Modeling turbulent flame propagation

Abstract

Laser diagnostics and flow simulation techniques axe now providing information that if available fifty years ago, would have allowed Damkoehler to show how turbulence generates flame area. In the absence of this information, many turbulent flame speed models have been created, most based on Kolmogorov concepts which ignore the turbulence vortical structure, Over the last twenty years, the vorticity structure in mixing layers and jets has been shown to determine the entrainment and mixing behavior and these effects need to be duplicated by combustion models. Turbulence simulations reveal the intense vorticity structure as filaments and simulations of passive flamelet propagation show how this vorticity Creates flame area and defines the shape of the expected chemical reaction surface. Understanding how volume expansion interacts with flow structure should improve experimental methods for determining turbulent flame speed. Since the last decade has given us such powerful new tools to create and see turbulent combustion microscopic behavior, it seems that a solution of turbulent combustion within the next decade would not be surprising in the hindsight of 2004.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10173690
Report Number(s):
SAND-94-8701C; CONF-940838-7
ON: DE94016618
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DR00789
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 25. combustion symposium,Irvine, CA (United States),1 Aug 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; FLAME PROPAGATION; TURBULENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTICES; REVIEWS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; 400800; COMBUSTION, PYROLYSIS, AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Ashurst, W T. Modeling turbulent flame propagation. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Ashurst, W T. Modeling turbulent flame propagation. United States.
Ashurst, W T. 1994. "Modeling turbulent flame propagation". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10173690.
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abstractNote = {Laser diagnostics and flow simulation techniques axe now providing information that if available fifty years ago, would have allowed Damkoehler to show how turbulence generates flame area. In the absence of this information, many turbulent flame speed models have been created, most based on Kolmogorov concepts which ignore the turbulence vortical structure, Over the last twenty years, the vorticity structure in mixing layers and jets has been shown to determine the entrainment and mixing behavior and these effects need to be duplicated by combustion models. Turbulence simulations reveal the intense vorticity structure as filaments and simulations of passive flamelet propagation show how this vorticity Creates flame area and defines the shape of the expected chemical reaction surface. Understanding how volume expansion interacts with flow structure should improve experimental methods for determining turbulent flame speed. Since the last decade has given us such powerful new tools to create and see turbulent combustion microscopic behavior, it seems that a solution of turbulent combustion within the next decade would not be surprising in the hindsight of 2004.},
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year = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
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