Fire is a complex natural phenomena involving chemical reactions and turbulent flow of hot gaseous products. Significant computer graphics research is devoted to modelling the turbulent dynamics of fire; however flicker which results from the chemical nature of fire has not been previously modelled. In this paper we present a technique that addresses both modelling of dynamics and chemical aspe...

Interferometry has been used for many years as a semi-quantitative image-based diagnostic for combustion research. In this paper, we use image-plane, double-pulse holographic interferograms of axisymmetric flames to infer their radial temperature distribution. An Abel inversion is performed on the fringe data to account for line-of-sight integration through the flame. The sensitivity of nonreso...

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Premixed methane-air mixture is introduced at the center of two parallel circular quartz plates separated by a millimeter scale distance (<or= 5mm). Two plates are heated with an external heater to create a positive temperature gradient condition along the flow direction. The combustion characteristics of lean methane-air mixtures are investigated at phi=0.67 and phi=0.85 in the laminar flow re...

We consider a diffusional-thermal model with twostep competitive reactions for premixed combustion wave propagation in one spatial dimension. Numerical investigation of the flame speed of the system for different fuel types shows the existence of regions where two stable travelling combustion wave solutions co-exist solutions pertaining to the fast and slow branches. A hysteresis type phenomena...

diffusion flame in a dust cloud combustion in a counterflow configuration is investigated in this research. it is presumed that the fuel particles vaporize first to yield a gaseous fuel to oxidize with the gas phase. the reaction rate is assumed to be of the arrhenius type. conservation equations for the non-unity lewis number are solved and the flame temperature with the variations of differen...

Premixed flames encounter gradients of mixture equivalence ratio in stratified charge engines, lean premixed gas-turbine engines, and a variety of other applications. In cases for which the scales—spatial or temporal—of fuel concentration gradients in the reactants are comparable to flame scales, changes in burning rate, flammability limits, and flame structure have been observed. This paper us...

In order to solve the simulation problem of steady compressible turbulent combustion, a small scale high performance parallel cluster system was designed. It based on the open source CFD platform OpenFOAM, and was used to to simulate the bluff-body stabilized Sydney flame hm1 which refers to the detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms of coal gas and air combustion reaction. The flow of combustion...

The near-field of an azimuthally excited round jet was investigated in a combined computational/ experimental study. The reaction zones in the jet were visualized using OH Planar-LaserInduced-Fluorescence ~PLIF! diagnostics. Both axisymmetric and azimuthal modes of the jet were excited to stabilize its spatial structure. Three-dimensional flame visualization of the laboratory jet reconstructed ...

Spray ignition and flame stabilisation in the frame of diesel-like combustion conditions combine fundamental and complex physical and chemical processes. In this work, a numerical investigation has been performed to evaluate the potential of integrating detailed chemistry into CFD calculations, in order to improve predictions and gain more insight in involved processes. This work has been carri...