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Buoyancy effects in fully-modulated, turbulent diffusion flames
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Page, K. L. Stocker, D. P. Hermanson, J. C. Johari, H. Hegde, U. G. Ghaem-Maghami, E. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | Pulsed combustion appears to have the potential to provide for rapid fuel/air mixing, compact and economical combustors, and reduced exhaust emissions. The objective of this experiment (PuFF, for Pulsed-Fully Flames) is to increase the fundamental understanding of the fuel/air mixing and combustion behavior of pulsed, turbulent diffusion flames by conducting experiments in microgravity. In this research the fuel jet is fully-modulated (i.e., completely shut off between pulses) by an externally controlled valve system. This gives rise to drastic modification of the combustion and flow characteristics of flames, leading to enhanced fuel/air mixing compared to acoustically excited or partially-modulated jets. Normal-gravity experiments suggest that the fully-modulated technique also has the potential for producing turbulent jet flames significantly more compact than steady flames with no increase in exhaust emissions. The technique also simplifies the combustion process by avoiding the acoustic forcing generally present in pulsed combustors. Fundamental issues addressed in this experiment include the impact of buoyancy on the structure and flame length, temperatures, radiation, and emissions of fully-modulated flames. |
| File Size | 204574 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040053583 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t77t2nk4b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics Jet Mixing Flow Diffusion Flames Reaction Kinetics Buoyancy Flow Characteristics Combustion Chambers Exhaust Emission Turbulent Jets Turbulent Diffusion Fuel-air Ratio Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |