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COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages 241-252Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.04.007
Keywords
Laminar flame speed; Laser-induced spark ignition; Propane; Methane; Shock tube
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory/Army Research Office [W911NF-17-1-0420]
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High-temperature methane and propane laminar flame speed measurements were conducted behind reflected shock waves in a shock tube. A high-power Nd:YAG laser was used to spark-ignite the shock-heated gas mixtures and initiate laminar flame propagation. High-speed, OH* endwall imaging was used to record the propagation of the spherically expanding flames in time, and a non-linear stretch correlation was applied and used to determine the unburned, unstretched laminar flame speed. Low-temperature (<600 K) flame speed results are presented for stoichiometric methane/air and propane/air mixtures at initial unburned gas conditions of 489-573 K and 391-556 K, respectively, and 1 atm. The low-temperature measurements show close agreement with available literature data and kinetic modeling results, thereby validating the shock-tube laminar flame speed measurement approach. High-temperature (>750 K) flame speed results are presented for a propane/21% O-2-47% N-2-32% He mixture (phi = 0.8) at initial unburned gas conditions of 764-832 K, 1 atm. The high-temperature measurements fall between kinetic model predictions, but the kinetic model results show significant disagreement, highlighting the need for high-temperature flame speed validation data of this kind. We believe that these results represent the first laminar flame speed measurements conducted in a shock tube, and that the high-temperature results are the highest-temperature, 1-atm flame speed measurements available in the literature. (C) 2019 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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