Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 1341-1348Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2014.08.003
Keywords
Turbulent premixed flame; DNS; Flame structure; Flame topology
Funding
- Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Commission under the Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering TEE Project
- office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE- AC05-00OR22725]
- Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy
- US Department of Energy SciDAC Program
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1088748] Funding Source: researchfish
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The topology of turbulent premixed flames is analysed using data from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), with emphasis on the statistical geometry of flame-flame interaction. A general method for obtaining the critical points of line, surface and volume fields is outlined, and the method is applied to isosurfaces of reaction progress variable in a DNS configuration involving a pair of freely-propagating hydrogen-air flames in a field of intense shear-generated turbulence. A complete set of possible flame-interaction topologies is derived using the eigenvalues of the scalar Hessian, and the topologies are parametrised using a pair of shape factors. The frequency of occurrence of each type of topology is evaluated from the DNS dataset for two different Damkohler numbers. Different types of flame-interaction topology are found to be favoured in various regions of the turbulent flame, and the physical significance of each interaction is discussed. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute.
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