2023/12/08 by C.E.A.G. van Gool, van Gool, C. E. A. G., T. Hazenberg +5
Engineering · #Combustion and Detonation Processes #Combustion and flame dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fire dynamics and safety research #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.04994
openalex publication_date 2023/12/08 · openalex created_date 2023/12/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Iron dust counter-flow flames have been studied with the low-Mach-number combustion approximation. The model considers full coupling between the two phases, including particle/droplet drag. The dispersed phase flow strain relations are derived under the assumption of low Reynolds number conditions. The importance of solving a particle flow strain model is demonstrated by comparing three different models: a free unstrained flame, a counter-flow flame where particle flow strain is assumed equal to gas flow strain and one case in which the particle flow strain is solved. All three cases showed preferential diffusion effects, due to the lack of diffusion of iron in the fuel mixture, e.g. DFe,m = 0. The preferential diffusion effect causes a peak in the fuel equivalence ratio in the preheat zone. At the burned side, the combined effect of strain and preferential diffusion showed a decrease in fuel equivalence ratio. Inertia effects, which are only included in the resolved particle flow strain case, counteract this effect and result in an increase of the fuel equivalence ratio at the burned side. A laminar flame speed analysis is performed and a recommendation is given on how to experimentally determine the flame speed in a counter-flow set-up.