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The Study of Turbulent Flame Characteristics by Plate Shape of Turbulence Generator

난류생성기 판 형상에 의한 난류화염 특성 연구

Yeonse Kang1
,
Keeman Lee1*
강 연세1
,
이 기만1*
1School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Center for Aerospace Eng. Research, Sunchon National University
1순천대학교 기계우주항공공학부/우주항공연구센터
*Corresponding Author
30 September 2021. pp. 20-34
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Abstract

The cross-shaped fractal grids which have RRBT(reduced ratio of bar thickness) and the hexagonal grid were used to generate various turbulent flow properties for low swirl flames. In the non-reacting flow field with the fixed bulk velocity at 10 m/s, decreasing RRBT induces the increasing turbulent intensity(IU) with the delay in the location of lowest turbulent mean velocity(U¯) and highest turbulent fluctuation(u') due to vortex shedding from the bar thickness. This phenomenon was well explained by a wake interaction theory using axial velocity profiles at the centerline. At various equivalence ratios for Hexa. and fractal grids, the characteristics of low swirl flames could be identified to a thin reaction zone regime in the Borghi – Peter regime diagram. Decreasing RRBT increases IU in front of flame brush with increasing turbulent local displacement speeds (ST,LD) via a linear correlation. The turbulent Reynolds number, ReT composed of the ratio of length scale and velocity components induced the proportional trends in non linear relationship showing that the influence of the length scale ratio. The empirical correlation study of ST,LD as a function of ReT and u'/SL0 was investigated to compare the influence of velocity and turbulent length scales ratio. The result of linear correlation equation with ST,LD indicates the influence of velocity factors greater than ReT through the exponential factor.

Keywords
Low swirl injector
Cross-shaped fractal grid
Turbulent flow field
Turbulent length scale
Local displacement turbulent flame speed
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  • Publisher :The Korean Society Combustion
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국연소학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of The Korean Society Combustion
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국연소학회지
  • Volume : 26
  • No :3
  • Pages :20-34
  • Received Date : 2021-06-02
  • Revised Date : 2021-06-16
  • Accepted Date : 2021-08-13
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.15231/jksc.2021.26.3.020
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