• 한국연소학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2001

Propagation characteristics of tribrachial flames have been studied numerically in a two-dimensional fuel/oxidizer mixing layer. A flame is initiated by imposing a high temperature ignition source. Subsequent propagation of a tribrachial flame is traced. The flow redirection effect at the leading edge of a tribrachial flame increases the propagation speed beyond the corresponding stoichiometric laminar burning velocity. The effect of mixture fraction gradient on the propagation speed of a tribrachial flame is analyzed in a mixing layer considering that mixture fraction gradient increases as a tribrachial flame propagates toward upstream. As the flame curvature at the leading edge increases with decreasing mixture fraction gradient, the flow redirection effect becomes more pronounced on the flame propagation speed. As a result, the propagation speed of a tribrachial flame increases with decreasing mixture fraction gradient.

• 공업화학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.104-108
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 이산화탄소/수소 혼합기체가 관 모양의 Pd-Ag 막을 통과할 때 관 안에서의 이산화탄소 및 수소의 몰분율, 수소 분압, 그리고, 속도 구배 등을 CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) 기법을 사용하여서 다양한 유입 속도에 대해서 모사하였다. 모사 결과에 의하면 유입 속도가 증가할수록 관의 길이 방향을 따라서 이산화탄소의 몰분율이 더디게 증가함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 혼합 기체의 유입 속도와 관의 길이가 수소 회수율에 미치는 영향에 대해서 살펴보았으며 낮은 유입속도와 긴 관의 경우에 수소 회수율이 큰 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2002

The propagation speed of tribrachial flame in laminar propane jets has been investigated experimentally under normal and micro gravity conditions. The displacement speed was found to vary nonlinearly with axial distance because flow velocity along stoichiometric contour was comparable to the propagation speed of tribrachial flame for the present experiment. Approximate solutions for velocity and concentration accounting density difference and virtual origins have been used in determining the propagation speeds of tribrachial flame. Under micro gravity condition, the results showed that propagation speed of tribrachial flame is largely affected by the mixture fraction gradients, in agreement with previous studies. The limiting maximum value. of propagation speeds under micro gravity conditions are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction, that is, the ratio of maximum propagation speed to the stoichiometric laminar burning velocity is proportional to the square root of the density ratio of unburned to burnt mixture.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.166-173
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• 2007

A numerical study was conducted to have the effect of $CO_2$ addition to fuel on the chemical reaction mechanism with the change of the initial concentration of $CO_2$ and the axial velocity gradient. From this study, it was found that there were two serious effects of $CO_2$ addition on a non-premixed flame ; a diluent effect by the reactive species reduction and chemical effect of the breakdown of $CO_2$ by the third-body collision and thermal dissociation. Especially, the chemical effect was serious at the lower velocity gradient of the axial flow. It was certain that the mole fraction profile of $CO_2$ was deflected and CO was increased with the initial concentration of $CO_2$. It was also ascertained that the breakdown of $CO_2$ would cause the increasing of CO mole fraction at the reaction region. It was also found that the addition of $CO_2$ did not alter the basic skeleton of $H_2-O_2$ reaction mechanism, but contributed to the formation and destruction of hydrocarbon products such as HCO. The conversion of CO was also suppressed and $CO_2$ played a role of a dilution in the reaction zone at the higher axial velocity gradient.