Turbulent Diffusion Flames in a Plane Shear Layer

Forced Turbulent Shear Layer

Bubble breakup in a turbulent shear layer

The breakup of a millimetre size buoyantly rising bubble encountering a horizontal plane turbulent jet is experimentally investigated using high-speed shadowgraphy and acoustic techniques. The bubble diameter to jet height ratio is 0.75 and the jet height based Reynolds number is 4000. The high-speed imaging was recorded at 7 kHz simultaneous with hydrophone output at 100 kHz. Bubble breakup ev...

DNS of auto–ignition in turbulent diffusion H2/air flames

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is used to study auto–ignition of turbulent diffusion flames. A novel, all–Mach number algorithm developed by Doom et al is used. The chemical mechanism is a nine species, nineteen reaction mechanism for H2 and Air from Mueller at el. 2 Simulations of three dimensional turbulent diffusion flames are performed. Isotropic turbulence is superimposed on an unstrain...

Modeling soot formation in turbulent kerosene/air jet diffusion flames

Soot volume fraction and number density in a turbulent diffusion flame burning kerosene/air were predicted using two approaches. The first used a conventional soot inception model based on the acetylene concentration and is referred to as the acetylene model. The second used a soot inception model based on the formation rate of three and two ring aromatics [1] and is referred to as the PAH ince...

Buoyancy Effects in Strongly-pulsed, Turbulent Diffusion Flames

The objective of this experiment is to better understand the combustion behavior of pulsed, turbulent diffusion flames by conducting experiments in microgravity. The fuel jet is fully-modulated (i.e., completely shut off between pulses) by an externally controlled valve system leading to enhanced fuel/air mixing compared to acoustically excited or partiallymodulated jets[1]. Experiments are con...