Modeling of the turbulent burning velocity for planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions

Lu Zhen; Yang Yue

doi:10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3

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Z. Lu and Y. Yang, Modeling of the turbulent burning velocity for planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions, Acta Mech. Sin. 38, 121504 (2022), http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' xlink:href='https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3'>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3

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Z. Lu and Y. Yang, Modeling of the turbulent burning velocity for planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions, Acta Mech. Sin. 38, 121504 (2022), http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3

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Z. Lu and Y. Yang, Modeling of the turbulent burning velocity for planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions, Acta Mech. Sin. 38, 121504 (2022), http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3

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Modeling of the turbulent burning velocity for planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions

doi: 10.1007/s10409-021-09027-3

Lu Zhen^{1, 2},
Yang Yue^{1, 2, 3,*
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1.
State Key Laboratory for Turbulent and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;
2.
BIC-ESAT, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;
3.
HEDPS-CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China;

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 91841302

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2020YFE0204200

Xplore Prize

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Corresponding author: Yang Yue, E-mail address: yyg@pku.edu.cn (Yue Yang)
Accepted Date: 24 Nov 2021

Available Online: 01 Aug 2022

Publish Date: 29 Jan 2022
Issue Publish Date: 01 Mar 2022

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We develop and assess a model of the turbulent burning velocity $s_{T}$ over a wide range of conditions. The aim is to obtain an explicit $s_{T}$ model for turbulent combustion modeling and flame analysis. The model consists of sub models of the stretch factor and the turbulent flame area. The stretch factor characterizes the flame response of turbulence stretch and incorporates detailed chemistry and transport effects with a lookup table of laminar counterflow flames. The flame area model captures the area growth based on Lagrangian statistics of propagating surfaces and considers the effects of turbulence length scales and fuel characteristics. The present model predicts $s_{T}$ via an algebraic expression without free parameters. We assess the model using 490 cases of the direct numerical simulation or experiment reported from various research groups on planar and Bunsen flames over a wide range of conditions, covering fuels from hydrogen to n-dodecane, pressures from 1 to 30 atm, lean and rich mixtures, turbulence intensity ratios from 0.1 to 177.6, and turbulence length ratios from 0.5 to 66.7. Despite the scattering $s_{T}$ data in the literature, the comprehensive comparison shows that the proposed $s_{T}$ model has an overall good agreement over the wide range of conditions, with the averaged modeling error of 28.1%.
- Turbulent burning velocity,
- Turbulent premixed flame,
- Flame speed

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