1. Premixed Flame Propagation in Turbulent Flow by means of Stereoscopic PIV and Dual-Plane OH-PLIF at sustained KHz Repetition Rates
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Andreas Dreizler, Benjamin Böhm, Isaac Boxx, C. Heeger, Philipp Trunk, and Wolfgang Meier
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Premixed flame ,stereo PIV ,Laminar flame speed ,business.industry ,Turbulence ,Chemistry ,Mechanical Engineering ,General Chemical Engineering ,Flow (psychology) ,turbulence ,flame propagation ,Mechanics ,Flame speed ,Displacement (vector) ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,kHz ,Optics ,Flow velocity ,OH PLIF ,Combustor ,Physics::Chemical Physics ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,business ,Verbrennungsdiagnostik - Abstract
This paper describes an experimental study on the propagation of premixed flames through a flow with well-defined turbulence characteristics. In this study, multi-plane OH planar laser-induced fluorescence (OH-PLIF) and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV) were applied simultaneously at 10 kHz to measure the local three-dimensional displacement velocity of unstabilized, freely propagating flames passing through a premixed flow of methane and air. The dual-plane OH-PLIF data was used to track both reaction zone location and flame-normal orientation, while SPIV was used to track the three-component velocity field. The vectorial difference of the two produces a direct, time-resolved measurement of the local 3D displacement velocity of the flame. The use of unstabilized, freely propagating flames eliminates spatiotemporal dependence of local 3D displacement velocity associated with burner- or aerodynamically-stabilized test flames. Statistics of local 3D displacement velocities are presented. These show values ranging from slightly negative up to approximately eight times the laminar flame speed. Instantaneous flame-normal orientation with respect to the direction of local fluid velocity is identified as one parameter affecting instantaneous displacement velocities.
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- 2013
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