A numerical study of spray flame ignition and extinction fronts in a mixing layer

J. B. Greenberg*, L. S. Kagan, G. I. Sivashinsky

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Abstract

In this paper results of numerical simulations of edge flame propagation in the presence of a spray of liquid droplets in a three-dimensional channel are presented for the first time. The fuel vapor and droplets and gaseous oxidizer are supplied in a counter-flow. Attention is focused on the way the spray-related parameters (initial droplet load and the vaporization Damköhler number) impact on the ignition and extinction fronts in the strained opposed flow mixing layer. Unlike similar studies of purely gaseous flames in the same configuration hysteresis is found to occur here under certain operating conditions. This indicates how the local thermal and chemical distributions that develop upon applying a source of ignition play such a critical part in determining whether ignition will occur. In addition, for limiting cases for which the range of values of the strain rate parameter straddling flame ignition/extinction was very small an (unsteady) galloping mode of flame propagation is disclosed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2012
Pages380-394
Number of pages15
StatePublished - 2012
Event52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2012 - Tel-Aviv and Haifa, Israel
Duration: 29 Feb 20121 Mar 2012

Publication series

Name52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2012
Volume1

Conference

Conference52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences 2012
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel-Aviv and Haifa
Period29/02/121/03/12

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