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Flame Stabilization and Blow-Off of Ultra-Lean H 2 -Air Premixed Flames

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  • Faizan Habib Vance

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

  • Yuriy Shoshin

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

  • Philip de Goey

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

  • Jeroen van Oijen

    (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The manner in which an ultra-lean hydrogen flame stabilizes and blows off is crucial for the understanding and design of safe and efficient combustion devices. In this study, we use experiments and numerical simulations for pure H 2 -air flames stabilized behind a cylindrical bluff body to reveal the underlying physics that make such flames stable and eventually blow-off. Results from CFD simulations are used to investigate the role of stretch and preferential diffusion after a qualitative validation with experiments. It is found that the flame displacement speed of flames stabilized beyond the lean flammability limit of a flat stretchless flame ( ϕ = 0.3 ) can be scaled with a relevant tubular flame displacement speed. This result is crucial as no scaling reference is available for such flames. We also confirm our previous hypothesis regarding lean limit blow-off for flames with a neck formation that such flames are quenched due to excessive local stretching. After extinction at the flame neck, flames with closed flame fronts are found to be stabilized inside a recirculation zone.

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  • Faizan Habib Vance & Yuriy Shoshin & Philip de Goey & Jeroen van Oijen, 2021. "Flame Stabilization and Blow-Off of Ultra-Lean H 2 -Air Premixed Flames," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-13, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:7:p:1977-:d:529431
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