Different spreading regimes of spray-flames

We present a minimal model of spray combustion to investigate a flame front propagating through a fuel-lean mixture of fuel vapor, droplets and air. The model relies on a main control parameter, Da, named the Damkoehler number, which allows us to take into account a large variety of fuel sprays. Numerical results reveal, as a function of Da, a wide range of spray-flame structures, including the classical gaseous premixed flame, a specific regime controlled by vaporisation, and a pulsating mode of propagation. The latter appears when the vaporisation is smaller than (or equal to) the reaction time, and it occurs even with a unit Lewis number.

S. Suard, Pierre Haldenwang, Colette Nicoli. Different spreading regimes of spray-flames. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 2004, 332 (5-6), pp.387-396. ⟨10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.004⟩. ⟨hal-00907403⟩

Journal: Comptes Rendus Mécanique

Date de publication: 01-01-2004

Auteurs:
  • S. Suard
  • Pierre Haldenwang
  • Colette Nicoli

Digital object identifier (doi): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.004

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