Effects of radiation and compression on propagating spherical flames of methane/air mixtures near the lean flammability limit
- State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
Large discrepancies between the laminar flame speeds and Markstein lengths measured in experiments and those predicted by simulations for ultra-lean methane/air mixtures bring a great concern for kinetic mechanism validation. In order to quantitatively explain these discrepancies, a computational study is performed for propagating spherical flames of lean methane/air mixtures in different spherical chambers using different radiation models. The emphasis is focused on the effects of radiation and compression. It is found that the spherical flame propagation speed is greatly reduced by the coupling between thermal effect (change of flame temperature or unburned gas temperature) and flow effect (inward flow of burned gas) induced by radiation and/or compression. As a result, for methane/air mixtures near the lean flammability limit, the radiation and compression cause large amounts of under-prediction of the laminar flame speeds and Markstein lengths extracted from propagating spherical flames. Since radiation and compression both exist in the experiments on ultra-lean methane/air mixtures reported in the literature, the measured laminar flame speeds and Markstein lengths are much lower than results from simulation and thus cannot be used for kinetic mechanism validation. (author)
- OSTI ID:
- 21390731
- Journal Information:
- Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, Issue 12; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved; ISSN 0010-2180
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
METHANE
LAMINAR FLAMES
AIR
SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION
MIXTURES
FLAMMABILITY
LENGTH
COMPRESSION
VELOCITY
VALIDATION
SIMULATION
FLAME PROPAGATION
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
COUPLING
LIMITING VALUES
HEAT LOSSES
COMBUSTION KINETICS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
RADIANT HEAT TRANSFER
Markstein length
Propagating spherical flames