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Burning velocities of flamelets in a turbulent premixed flame

Journal Article · · Combustion and Flame
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Tokyo Metropolitan Technical Coll. (Japan). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  2. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  3. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States). Center for Energy and Combustion Research

Burning velocities of flamelets in a vertically oriented, burner-stabilized turbulent premixed propane-air flame in the reaction-sheet regime are investigated by use of a microelectrostatic probe and a laser-doppler velocimeter (LDV) that give components in a vertical plane of the flame-front velocity and the gas velocity, respectively. Under the experimental conditions investigated, the average turbulent fluctuating velocity is of the same order of magnitude as the laminar burning velocity of the planar, unstrained, adiabatic laminar flame. The component of the flamelet motion with respect to the gas in the vertical plane is found from these measurements to be distributed over all directions and to range in magnitude from nearly zero to a few times the planar, unstrained, adiabatic laminar burning velocity. It may be concluded from these observations that the turbulence may exert substantial influences on the flamelets.

OSTI ID:
619630
Journal Information:
Combustion and Flame, Journal Name: Combustion and Flame Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 113; ISSN CBFMAO; ISSN 0010-2180
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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