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The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (대한기계학회)
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Numerical Modeling for the $H_2/CO$ Bluff-Body Stabilized Flames

  • Kim, Seong-Ku (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Mo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Ahn, Kook-Young (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) ;
  • Oh, Koon-Sup (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)
  • Published : 2000.08.01
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Abstract

This study investigates the nonpremixed $H_2/CO$-air turbulent flames numerically. The turbulent combustion process is represented by a reaction progress variable model coupled with the presumed joint probability function. In the present study, the turbulent combustion model is applied to analyze the nonadiabatic flames by introducing additional variable in the transport equation of enthalpy and the radiative heat loss is calculated using a local, geometry independent model. Calculations are compared with experimental data in terms of temperature, and mass fraction of major species, radical, and NO. Numerical results indicate that the lower and higher fuel-jet velocity flames have the distinctly different flame structures and NO formation characteristics in the proximity of the outer core vortex zone. The present model correctly predicts the essential features of flame structure and the characteristics of NO formation in the bluff-body stabilized flames. The effects of nonequilibrium chemistry and radiative heat loss on the thermal NO formation are discussed in detail.

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