Journal
FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages 573-607Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-015-9652-y
Keywords
Direct numerical simulation; Turbulent combustion; Droplet diameter; Droplet equivalence ratio; Turbulence intensity
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Funding
- EPSRC [EP/J021997/1, EP/K025163/1]
- N8
- ARCHER
- EPSRC [EP/K025163/1, EP/J021644/1, EP/J021997/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J021997/1, EP/K025163/1, EP/J021644/1, EP/K50340X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Turbulent combustion of mono-disperse droplet-mist has been analysed based on three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) in canonical configuration under decaying turbulence for a range of different values of droplet equivalence ratio (I center dot(d)), droplet diameter (a (d) ) and root-mean-square value of turbulent velocity (u (')). The fuel is supplied in liquid phase and the evaporation of droplets gives rise to gaseous fuel for the flame propagation into the droplet-mist. It has been found that initial droplet diameter, turbulence intensity and droplet equivalence ratio can have significant influences on the volume-integrated burning rate, flame surface area and burning rate per unit area. The droplets are found to evaporate predominantly in the preheat zone, but some droplets penetrate the flame front, reaching the burned gas side where they evaporate and some of the resulting fuel vapour diffuses back towards the flame front. The combustion process in gaseous phase takes place predominantly in fuel-lean mode even for I center dot(d) > 1. The probability of finding fuel-lean mixture increases with increasing initial droplet diameter because of slower evaporation of larger droplets and this predominantly fuel-lean mode of combustion exhibits the attributes of low Damkohler number combustion and gives rise to thickening of flame with increasing droplet diameter. The chemical reaction is found to take place under both premixed and non-premixed modes of combustion and the relative contribution of non-premixed combustion to overall heat release increases with increasing droplet size. The statistical behaviours of the flame propagation and mode of combustion have been analysed in detail and detailed physical explanations have been provided for the observed behaviour.
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