On local displacement speeds, their correlations with flame-front quantities, and their temporal evolution measured in turbulent premixed flames

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Skiba, Aaron W. [1 ]
Carter, Campbell D. [1 ]
Hammack, Stephen D. [1 ]
Driscoll, James F. [2 ]
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[1] US Air Force, Res Lab, Wright Patterson Afb, OH 45433 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Dept Aerosp Engn, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
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Measured local displacement speeds; Turbulent premixed combustion modeling; Advanced diagnostics; Low-carbon fuel; Image processing; DIRECT NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; METHANE-AIR FLAMES; SURFACE-DENSITY; CURVATURE; PLIF; PROPAGATION; TRANSPORT; EQUATION; STRETCH;
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10.1016/j.proci.2024.105542
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O414.1 [热力学];
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This study reports measurements of two-dimensional (2D) local displacement speeds (S-d(2D)), curvature (kappa(2D)), and tangential strain rate (a(t)(2D)) extracted from premixed flames subjected to turbulent Karlovitz and Reynolds numbers ranging from 2.1-23 and 1500-3500, respectively. Such measurements were facilitated through joint implementation of OH PLIF and stereoscopic PIV at 20 kHz. Deriving these quantities from OH-PLIF-based flame edges permitted, to our knowledge, the first experimental assessment of their statistical correlations. Namely, joint PDFs (JPDFs) and conditional mean (CM) profiles of S-d(2D) and a(t)(2D) indicate that S-d(2D) tends to decrease as the magnitude of a(t)(2D) increases. JPDFs and CM profiles of S-d(2D) and kappa(2D) exhibit a strong negative correlation and demonstrate that density weighted values of S-d(2D) (S-d*(2D) = rho(F) S-d(2D)/rho(0), where rho(0) and rho(F) represent the density within the reactants and at the iso-contours selected to define the flame front, respectively) exceed three times the un-stretched laminar flame speed (S-L(0)) when kappa(2D) <<0. Global averages of S-d*(2D) extracted near the bases of flames were 20%-30% less than S-L(0); yet, such values increased with axial distance (y). These findings are all consistent with prior direct numerical simulation (DNS) studies, particularly those of burner-stabilized flames. Beyond enabling correlations of the aforementioned quantities, the employed diagnostics, coupled with a unique flame-edge-point tracking algorithm, enabled statistical assessment of their temporal evolution. Specifically, deriving a normalized time (0 <= tau* <= 1) based on when two flame-edge-points merged allowed assessment of quantities conditioned on the flame-edge-points proceeding that merger. Such analysis revealed that, on average, the lives of flame-edge-points fall into two epochs: (1) for tau* less than or similar to 0.8, kappa(2D) slowly decreases as tau* increases and S-d*(2D) approximate to 0.7 S-L(0); and (2) when tau* greater than or similar to 0.8, S-d*(2D) sharply increases to values exceeding 2S(L)(0) and there is a marked rise in the decay rate of kappa(2D). These trends are consistent with recent DNS studies and support implementing a kappa-based S-d-model capable of predicting its extreme characteristics as flame-edge-points approach annihilation.
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