Pub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113838
Zhiyong Wu , Can Ruan , Yue Qiu , Mehdi Stiti , Shijie Xu , Niklas Jüngst , Edouard Berrocal , Marcus Aldén , Xue-Song Bai , Zhongshan Li
In this work, a specially designed experimental setup is employed to study the ignition and combustion of single aluminum droplets in hot steam-dominated flows. The transient burning behaviors of Al droplets of different sizes are characterized by simultaneously visualizing the flame incandescence and droplet shadowgraphs with two high-speed cameras at high magnification. The combustion process can be described in three stages: Al ignition and droplet generation, droplet evaporation and flame development, and steady combustion. During the steady combustion stage, a bright flame sheet, characterized by a narrow layer of dense nano-micron-sized alumina droplets, encapsulates the Al droplet core. The flame sheet composed of alumina droplets is located on a stagnation plane where the radial velocities relative to the droplet core are close to zero. The standoff ratio is around two, and it slightly decreases with the droplet size and increases with the oxygen content in the ambient gas. The thickness of the flame sheet (the alumina particle layer) is analyzed using Abel inversion of the projected profile of the flame incandescence and optical depth, revealing a thickness of about 50 μm for a burning droplet of a 550 μm diameter. Based on the shadowgraph images, the evaporation rate of the Al droplets is determined from the shrinking rate of the droplet projected area. Size-dependent evaporation rates are found to be related to different slip velocities, and the addition of oxygen to the oxidizer can significantly increase the evaporation rate. Finally, a conceptual model of a burning Al droplet in the steady combustion stage is proposed based on the experimental findings. The presented results provide novel datasets that contribute to model development and deepen the understanding of the physical and chemical processes involved in aluminum droplet combustion.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113839
Wenhao Wang , Zongmin Hu , Peng Zhang
Utilizing a two-phase supersonic chemically reacting flow solver with the Eulerian-Lagrangian method implemented in OpenFOAM, this study computationally investigates the formation of liquid-fueled oblique detonation waves (ODWs) within a pre-injection oblique detonation wave engine operating at an altitude of 30 km and a velocity of Mach 9. The inflow undergoes two-stage 12.5° compression, followed by uniform mixing with randomly distributed n-heptane droplets before entering the combustor. The study examines the effects of droplet breakup models, gas-liquid ratios, and on-wedge strips on the ODW formation. Results indicate that under the pure-droplet condition, the ODW fails to form within the combustor, irrespective of the breakup models used. However, increasing the proportion of n-heptane vapor in the fuel/air mixture facilitates the ODW formation, because the n-heptane vapor rapidly participates in the gaseous reactions, producing heat and accelerating the transition from low- to intermediate-temperature chemistry. Additionally, the presence of on-wedge strips enhances ODW formation by inducing a bow shock wave within the combustor, which significantly increases the temperature, directly triggering intermediate-temperature chemistry and subsequent heat-release reactions, thereby facilitating the formation of ODW.
{"title":"Computational investigation on the formation of liquid-fueled oblique detonation waves","authors":"Wenhao Wang , Zongmin Hu , Peng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Utilizing a two-phase supersonic chemically reacting flow solver with the Eulerian-Lagrangian method implemented in OpenFOAM, this study computationally investigates the formation of liquid-fueled oblique detonation waves (ODWs) within a pre-injection oblique detonation wave engine operating at an altitude of 30 km and a velocity of Mach 9. The inflow undergoes two-stage 12.5° compression, followed by uniform mixing with randomly distributed n-heptane droplets before entering the combustor. The study examines the effects of droplet breakup models, gas-liquid ratios, and on-wedge strips on the ODW formation. Results indicate that under the pure-droplet condition, the ODW fails to form within the combustor, irrespective of the breakup models used. However, increasing the proportion of n-heptane vapor in the fuel/air mixture facilitates the ODW formation, because the n-heptane vapor rapidly participates in the gaseous reactions, producing heat and accelerating the transition from low- to intermediate-temperature chemistry. Additionally, the presence of on-wedge strips enhances ODW formation by inducing a bow shock wave within the combustor, which significantly increases the temperature, directly triggering intermediate-temperature chemistry and subsequent heat-release reactions, thereby facilitating the formation of ODW.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":280,"journal":{"name":"Combustion and Flame","volume":"271 ","pages":"Article 113839"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113840
Siqi Cai , Wenquan Yang , Lang Li, Jianlong Wan
The bluff-body is widely employed to improve the performance of the lean premixed combustion LPC which has advantages of high efficiency and low pollutant emissions. To further improve the LPC performance stabilized on the bluff-body, the effect of the bluff-body temperature on the lean premixed flame LPF feature near the flammability limit is studied here. The bluff-body temperature is controlled by the electrically heated rod or cooling water, and its values are set as ∼300 K (CB), naturally heat-conducting condition (NHB), 600 K (HB-600), and 900 K (HB-900), respectively. The experimental results show that the flammability limits and LPF behaviors in the case of CB and NHB are nearly the same because of the insignificant difference in the bluff-body temperature magnitude between them. The flammability limit can be significantly extended when the bluff-body temperature is heated to 900 K. Unexpectedly, the stable residual flame appears at the near-limit condition in the case of HB-900. It is the first time to observe the stable residual flame in the case of the fuel of Lewis number Le≈1.0. Then, the flame structures in the case of NHB, HB-600, and HB-900 are revealed numerically. It is found that the fresh reactant arrives at the flame primarily via diffusion rather than convection. The pre-heating effect on the fresh reactants and heat-loss effect to the bluff-body are also evaluated quantitatively. In the case of NHB, the flame can be classified to the adiabatic zone and mixed zone. By contrast, in the case of HB-600 and HB-900, the flame can be classified to the adiabatic zone, excess reaction zone, and weak reaction zone. This study expands our understanding on improving the LPC performance via controlling the bluff-body temperature.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-09DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113842
Hongsheng Ma , Changjian Wang , Yang Li , Tao Du , Quan Li
Non-uniform hydrogen deflagrations were experimentally conducted in a ceiling ventilated chamber considering the effects of ventilation area Av and leakage duration tig. Two new coupled flame behaviors are observed. The first type of coupled flame structure involves the non-growing conical flame bubbles and jet flames, while the second type involves the growing ellipsoid flame bubbles and jet flames. A decrease in Av or an increase in tig promotes the evolution of first type of coupled flame behavior into the second type. The horizontal propagation of deflagration flames can be divided into three typical stages and the horizontal flame front undergoes a gradual decrease in speed and then a slight acceleration. The overpressure transient exhibits a double peak structure in under-ventilated cases. The overpressure peak P1 is induced by the coupled upward propagation of jet flames and initial flame bubbles. The overpressure peak P2 is related to the coupled flame behavior involving jet flame combustion and flame bubble expansion. The maximum overpressure and maximum pressure rise rate show a sharp upward trend as the first type of coupled flame structure evolves into the second type.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113829
Brian T. Bojko , Clayton M. Geipel , Brian T. Fisher , David A. Kessler
Solid fuel combustion requires pyrolysis gases to burn near its surface to provide enough heat feedback to decompose the solid and continue to provide the volatile gases required to sustain combustion. This coupled process defines the difficulty in sustaining solid fuel combustion in a variety of propulsion environments and necessitates a fundamental understanding of the physical processes in order to drive system design. This study explores the combustion of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) in a counterflow diffusion flame burner with 50% and 100% oxygen content and compares the regression rate and flame standoff to experimental data. A sensitivity analysis is pursued to identify the model parameters that need improvement and to help guide the next campaign of experiments. Neural networks are developed in a compact way as a means of providing quantitative results on the sensitivity of input parameters. Then a fully connected, deeper neural network is trained on the input parameters – oxidizer mole fraction, solid fuel heat of formation, pre-exponential factor of pyrolysis Arrhenius rate, molecular weight of pyrolysis species, oxidizer mass flux, separation distance, and the oxidizer temperature, – and shown to predict output variables – regression rate and flame standoff – within 90% and 95% accuracy respectively. This network is then used to create millions of data points with an overlapping parameter space for further statistical analysis and improvement of model parameters. In all, the data analysis presented using a neural network approach will help drive the design of experiments and is shown to increase the accuracy of the model in comparison to experimental measurements.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-07DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113826
Leon C. Thijs , Marie-Aline Van Ende , Jeroen A. van Oijen , Philip de Goey , XiaoCheng Mi
In an effort to improve the understanding of the rate-limiting mechanisms in liquid iron particle combustion, this study investigates the impact of internal transport within a core–shell structure. The two-dimensional axisymmetric transient continuum model as presented in previous publication (Thijs et al., 2023) is extended, such that the boundary layer between the particle and the gas, surface processes at the particle–gas interface, as well as the internal oxide layer within the particle, considering the transport of reactive O and Fe ions, are resolved. Information from the equilibrium phase diagram, which is included as supplementary data, is used to determine oxidation rate of the particle. The study reveals that finite-rate internal transport significantly alters the temperature evolution compared to models assuming infinitely fast transport. At elevated oxygen concentrations, internal transport becomes rate-limiting, restricting the maximum particle temperature. The core–shell assumption leads to a higher local oxidation degree at the particle–gas interface than the average in the particle, reducing the overall oxygen consumption rate. The maximum particle temperature is reached when heat loss exceeds heat release. Although internal transport limits the maximum temperature, the initial heating rate remains overestimated, suggesting that the initial phase is not solely limited by external oxygen diffusion, and the L2-gas surface is not at thermodynamic equilibrium. The model does not account for the particle size effect on maximum temperature as observed in some experiments. A hypothetical explanation is that internal convection, more pronounced in larger particles, may reduce the internal transport limitation, leading to higher maximum temperatures in larger particles.
Novelty and significance
This study advances the understanding of oxidation rate-limiting mechanisms in liquid iron particle combustion by numerically investigating the impact of internal transport within a core–shell structure. By using a two-dimensional axisymmetric transient continuum model, the research reveals that finite-rate internal transport significantly affects temperature evolution of an oxidizing micron-sized iron particle, particularly at elevated oxygen concentrations where it becomes rate-limiting. The findings demonstrate that a finite-rate internal transport leads to a higher local oxidation degree at the particle–gas interface, reducing the oxygen consumption rates. The study highlights that finite-rate internal transport limits the maximum particle temperature at elevated oxygen concentrations, a trend observed in isolated iron particle combustion experiments. Furthermore, this study provides a hypothetical explanation for the experimentally observed particle size effects on the maximum particle temperature, emphasizing the role of internal convection in larger particles
为了更好地理解液态铁粒子燃烧的限速机制,本研究调查了核壳结构内部传输的影响。对之前发表的论文(Thijs 等人,2023 年)中提出的二维轴对称瞬态连续模型进行了扩展,从而解决了颗粒与气体之间的边界层、颗粒与气体界面的表面过程以及颗粒内部的氧化层(考虑到活性 O 和铁离子的传输)问题。作为补充数据的平衡相图信息用于确定粒子的氧化率。研究表明,与假设无限快传输的模型相比,有限速率内部传输会显著改变温度的演变。在氧气浓度升高时,内部传输成为速率限制,从而限制了颗粒的最高温度。核壳假设导致颗粒与气体界面的局部氧化度高于颗粒内的平均氧化度,从而降低了整体氧气消耗率。当热量损失超过热量释放时,就会达到颗粒的最高温度。虽然内部传输限制了最高温度,但初始加热速率仍然被高估,这表明初始阶段并不完全受外部氧气扩散的限制,L2-气体表面也没有达到热力学平衡。该模型没有解释某些实验中观察到的颗粒大小对最高温度的影响。一种假设的解释是,内部对流在较大颗粒中更为明显,可能会减少内部传输限制,从而导致较大颗粒中的最高温度升高。新颖性和意义这项研究通过数值研究核壳结构内部传输的影响,推进了对液态铁颗粒燃烧中氧化率限制机制的理解。通过使用二维轴对称瞬态连续模型,研究揭示了有限速率内部传输会显著影响氧化微米级铁粒子的温度演变,尤其是在氧气浓度升高时,内部传输会成为速率限制因素。研究结果表明,有限速率内部传输会导致颗粒与气体界面的局部氧化程度升高,从而降低耗氧率。研究强调,有限速率内部传输限制了氧气浓度升高时颗粒的最高温度,这是在孤立铁颗粒燃烧实验中观察到的趋势。此外,这项研究还为实验观察到的颗粒大小对最大颗粒温度的影响提供了一种假设性解释,强调了内部对流在较大颗粒中的作用。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113807
Joel Mathew, Justin K. Tavares, Jagannath Jayachandran
Environmental concerns have driven the development of alternative fuels and refrigerant working fluids with low global warming potential. Ammonia (NH3) is a potential zero-carbon fuel, while hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) like R-32 and R-1234yf are being adopted as refrigerants. When mixed with air, these compounds can sustain slowly propagating flames with laminar flame speeds less than 10 cm/s. Unlike typical hydrocarbon-fueled flames, these slow flames are influenced by buoyancy-induced flow and radiation heat loss. In this study, we experimentally investigate the flame speeds of NH3/air mixtures using the constant-pressure spherically expanding flame method, while circumventing gravity-induced natural convection, and account for radiation-induced inward flow. To mitigate buoyant convection, a low-cost drop tower was built and used to study slow spherically expanding flames in free fall. A computational model (SRADIF) is utilized that combines thermodynamic equilibrium and finite rate optically thin limit radiation heat loss calculations to estimate the inward flow. The developed methodology is utilized to investigate slowly propagating NH3/air flames over a range of equivalence ratios. A systematic approach was undertaken to understand and quantify the errors that could arise when deriving the laminar flame speed. It was found that attempting to study slowly propagating flames in a static configuration, as opposed to in free fall, results in large differences in flame dynamics and subsequently all derived quantities. It is necessary to study slowly propagating flames in free-fall. Additionally, using experimental data that has not been corrected for radiation-induced flow leads to large errors in all derived quantities. Furthermore, direct comparisons of experimental measurements and detailed flame simulations are found to be necessary to determine if existing extrapolation approaches are applicable to these slowly propagating flames, which are challenging to study.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113811
Sungyoung Ha, Tim Lieuwen
There are several mechanisms through which turbulent flames produce sound. In low Mach number, unconfined flows, direct combustion noise – i.e., unsteady gas expansion generated by heat release fluctuations – is known to be a dominant contributor. This study is motivated by the fact that in the farfield, the coherence between spatially integrated heat release fluctuations from acoustically compact flames and direct combustion noise is unity. This suggests that the role of direct combustion noise relative to other sources can be ascertained from the value of the coherence. However, in practice it is difficult to fully satisfy the requirements to achieve a unity coherence, even in cases where direct combustion noise is the dominant noise source. This paper explores the contribution of noncompactness and nearfield effects on coherence. For the noncompactness part, while it is often the case that flames are small relative to a wavelength, they are never infinitesimally small. For the nearfield aspect, it is often not possible or practical to obtain farfield measurements, particularly in confined environments. This paper presents calculations that quantify how these noncompactness and nearfield effects influence coherence values. These calculations provide guidance on frequency ranges over which direct combustion noise will lead to near-unity coherence values, as well as required distances and optimal angles for acoustic instrumentation.
Novelty and significance statement
This study presents a theoretical study on the coherence between heat release rate and acoustic pressure fluctuations, which has been mostly overlooked in prior literature. To the extent of the author’s knowledge, this is the first attempt that identify and investigate the inconsistencies between traditional theory and experimental literature on coherence. Results have implications for our previous understanding of the relationship between the heat release rate fluctuations and direct noise, aiding in future studies on combustion noise.
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Studying the ignition and combustion performances of modified aluminum-based metallic fuels in variable oxidizing atmospheres is highly important for large-scale space exploration. In this study, Al–B–Mg multi-metal composite powders (MMP) were prepared using the mechanical ball-milling method.It was coated respectively by ammonium perchlorate (AP), lithium perchlorate (LP), and potassium nitrate (KN) to obtain modified multi-metal composite powder fuels (AP@MMP, LP@MMP, and KN@MMP, respectively) by a recrystallization method. The samples were characterized and their thermal oxidation, ignition and combustion processes were investigated through a TG and laser-ignition experiment under Air/H2O environments. The results show that the MMP samples can potentially be called pure aluminum substitutes. All three samples exhibit fast ignition characteristics with ignition delay times of 2.95–6.75 ms in air. AP@MMP exhibits the highest ignition speed. The thermal oxidation, ignition, and combustion properties of all samples decayed with increasing water content in the atmosphere (Air→Air+H2O→H2O). AP@MMP exhibits a significantly more intense and stable combustion overall than LP@MMP and KN@MMP. This study expands the direction and application range of aluminum-based composite metal fuels, guiding their applications in Air/H2O environments.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113831
Yajun Wang, Wenyu Li, Ruihua Liu, Zhengliang Deng, Qiang Gan
To investigate the influence of cerium trifluoride (CeF3) on the combustion performance of nano aluminum powder (n-Al), different mass fractions of CeF3 were physically mixed into the n-Al powder. Research results show that CeF3 can significantly increase the main exothermic heat of n-Al powder. When the CeF3 content was 10 %, the heat release reached 9579.90 J·g‒1. However, as the CeF3 content increased, the heat release of the sample decreased. Thermal analysis results of Al/CeF3 and Al/CeO2 infer that this was due to the action of CeO2 generated by pre-ignition reaction for Al/CeF3–15. The presence of CeO2 inhibited the reaction degree of Al, thereby reducing the heat release. Meanwhile, as the proportion of CeF3 increased, the peak temperature of the main reaction exothermic peak was delayed, and more energy input was required for the oxidation of n-Al powder. Combustion experiments show that the addition of CeF3 greatly shortened the combustion time of n-Al powder, with the shortest time being 4.43 s. In addition, due to the excellent storage and release oxygen capability of CeO2, multiple micro-explosions occurred in the composite material during combustion.
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