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Computational analysis of the mechanisms and characteristics for pulsating and uniform flame spread over liquid fuel at subflash temperatures
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Xu, Baopeng and Wen, Jennifer X. (2022) Computational analysis of the mechanisms and characteristics for pulsating and uniform flame spread over liquid fuel at subflash temperatures. Combustion and Flame, 238 . 111933. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111933 ISSN 0010-2180.
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Abstract
The present study aims to gain insight of the mechanisms and characteristics for pulsating and uniform flame spread over liquid fuel at subflash temperatures. A specific goal is to use the validated three-dimensional (3-D) numerical model to reveal fine details of the gas and liquid phase flows as well as the resulting flame characteristics, which are challenging to obtain experimentally. To facilitate the study, 3-D formulations have been developed to explicitly solve the transport equations in both phases. A compressible solver was formulated for flame propagation in the gas phase using a one-step chemical reaction expression and mixture-averaged diffusion coefficients for the gaseous species. An incompressible solver with temperature dependent thermo-physical properties was employed to describe the convective motions and heat transfer in the liquid fuel region. Validation has been conducted for both uniform and pulsating spreads over a narrow 1-propanol tray with varying fuel depths through comparing the predicted flame front evolution with published measurements. Further qualitative comparison has also been conducted for some predicted fine features of the gas and liquid phase flows and flame spreading characteristics with published experimental observations. For both the uniform and pulsating spread, the detailed flame structure including the main diffusion flame and a small stratified premixed flame at the front have been captured. Wherever relevant, the detailed predictions were also used to shed light on some discrepancies in previously reported features in different laboratory studies and numerical simulations. Finally, the detailed 3-D predictions were used to illustrate fine features of the subsurface convective flow and its relative position to the flame front, the relative magnitudes of the subsurface flow velocity and that of the spread rate as well as the role of the thermocapillary-driven subsurface flow in the flame spread mechanism.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TH Building construction | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Flame spread, Liquid fuels -- Safety measures, Fire prevention, Fluid mechanics -- Mathematical models | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Combustion and Flame | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0010-2180 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 238 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 111933 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111933 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 January 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 January 2023 |
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