The effects of laminar burning velocity, turbulence intensity, flame size and eddy size on the turbulent burning velocity of a premixed growing flame were experimentally separated in a 125 mm cubical chamber with lean methane-air mixtures spark ignited at 1 atm and 300 K. The turbulence was up to 2 m/s with 1 to 4 mm Taylor microscale. For the near unity Lewis number and near zero Markstein number mixture considered here, the turbulent burning velocity, St, can be approximated as: St = Sl + Cd(r/λ)u′, where Sl is the laminar burning velocity, r is the mean flame radius, λ is the Taylor microscale, u′ is the root mean square (r.m.s.) turbulence intensity and Cd is a constant of the order 0.02.
Technical Note: The importance of turbulence intensity, eddy size and flame size in spark ignited, premixed flame growth
1997-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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