A computational study of flame dynamics on soot production and transport for an acetylene-air laminar diffusion flame in the field of a convecting line vortex

Mishra, S and Basu, S (2011) A computational study of flame dynamics on soot production and transport for an acetylene-air laminar diffusion flame in the field of a convecting line vortex. In: Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Sept. 11-15, 2011, Sardinia, Italy.

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Abstract

The present work involves a computational study of soot formation and transport in case of a laminar acetylene diffusion flame perturbed by a convecting line vortex. The topology of the soot contours (as in an earlier experimental work [4]) have been investigated. More soot was produced when vortex was introduced from the air side in comparison to a fuel side vortex. Also the soot topography was more diffused in case of the air side vortex. The computational model was found to be in good agreement with the experimental work [4]. The computational simulation enabled a study of the various parameters affecting soot transport. Temperatures were found to be higher in case of air side vortex as compared to a fuel side vortex. In case of the fuel side vortex, abundance of fuel in the vort ex core resulted in stoichiometrically rich combustion in the vortex core, and more discrete soot topography. Overall soot production too was low. In case of the air side vortex abundance of air in the core resulted in higher temperatures and more soot yield. Statistical techniques like probability density function, correlation coefficient and conditional probability function were introduced to explain the transient dependence of soot yield and transport on various parameters like temperature, a cetylene concentration.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited, an Informa Group Company
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Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	04 May 2013 10:13
Last Modified:	04 May 2013 10:13
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/46292

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