The improvement of blowout limit in partially/fully premixed flames with geometrically modified bluffbody bases |
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Authors: | Wookyung Kim Hyungrok Do M Godfrey Mungal |
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Institution: | (1) United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT 06108, USA;(2) Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3032, USA;(3) School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 9505-0590, USA; |
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Abstract: | The improvement of the lean blowout limit of bluffbody stabilized methane flames is investigated. The flame configuration
consists of a hybrid of partially and fully premixed flames, which is produced by injecting methane jets from a streamline-shaped
bluffbody into a fully premixed methane/air crossflow. Additional geometric modifications from the original bluffbody base
are such that the base has two-dimensionally modified geometries and three-dimensional local cavities. We observe that the
blowout limit of the hybrid configuration is extended by up to ~12% (in terms of the equivalence ratio of the crossflow) with
the modified geometries. Gas chromatographic sampling and particle image velocimetry (PIV) show that high fuel mole fraction
regions coexist with regions of low speed flow for the modified geometries. Further PIV analysis shows that the downstream
flow fields of the modified bases generally have a larger number of incoherent vortices and lower strain rate in comparison
with those of the unmodified base. |
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