Effects of buoyancy on lean premixed v-flames, Part II. VelocityStatistics in Normal and Microgravity Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Effects of buoyancy on lean premixed v-flames, Part II. VelocityStatistics in Normal and Microgravity

Creator

  • Author: Cheng, R. K.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Bedat, B.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Yegian, D. T.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: USDOE. Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management..Environmental Restoration and Waste Management - Defense
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Berkeley, California
    Additional Info: "Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)"

Date

  • Creation: 1999-07-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The field effects of buoyancy on laminar and turbulent premixed v-flames have been studied by the use of laser Doppler velocimetry to measure the velocity statistics in +1g, -1g and {micro}g flames. The experimental conditions covered mean velocity, Uo, of 0.4 to 2 m/s, methane/air equivalence ratio, f, of 0.62 to 0.75. The Reynolds numbers, from 625 to 3130 and the Richardson number from 0.05 to 1.34. The results show that a change from favorable (+1g) to unfavorable (-1g) mean pressure gradient in the plume create stagnating flows in the far field whose influences on the mean and fluctuating velocities persist in the near field even at the highest Re we have investigated. The use of Richardson number < 0.1 as a criterion for momentum dominance is not sufficient to prescribe an upper limit for these buoyancy effects. In {micro}g, the flows within the plumes are non-accelerating and parallel. Therefore, velocity gradients and hence mean strain rates in the plumes of laboratory flames are direct consequences of buoyancy. Furthermore, the rms fluctuations in the plumes of {micro}g flames are lower and more isotropic than in the laboratory flames to show that the unstable plumes in laboratory flames also induce velocity fluctuations. The phenomena influenced by buoyancy i.e. degree of flame wrinkling, flow acceleration, flow distribution, and turbulence production, can be subtle due to their close coupling with other flame flow interaction processes. But they cannot be ignored in fundamental studies or else the conclusions and insights would be ambiguous and not very meaningful.

Subject

  • STI Subject Categories: 25
  • Keyword: Statistics
  • Keyword: Strain Rate
  • Keyword: Flames
  • Keyword: Pressure Gradients
  • Keyword: Reynolds Number
  • Keyword: Richardson Number
  • Keyword: Velocity
  • Keyword: Turbulence
  • Keyword: Production
  • Keyword: Acceleration
  • Keyword: Lasers
  • Keyword: Fluctuations
  • Keyword: Plumes
  • Keyword: Distribution

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: LBNL--43797
  • Grant Number: DE-AC02-05CH11231
  • DOI: 10.2172/917320
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 917320
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc888366
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