TY - JOUR
T1 - Spectral formulation of turbulent flame speed with consideration of hydrodynamic instability
AU - Chaudhuri, Swetaprovo
AU - Akkerman, V'Yacheslav
AU - Law, Chung K.
PY - 2011/8/19
Y1 - 2011/8/19
N2 - Effects of Darrieus-Landau (DL) instability on the structure and propagation of turbulent premixed flame fronts are considered. By first hypothesizing separation of time scales of instability and turbulence, we estimate whether the instability can develop in the presence of turbulence of given flow rms-velocity and integral length scale. As a result, we modify the standard turbulent premixed combustion regime diagram by introducing new boundaries, limiting the domain where the instability influences the global flame shape and speed. Based on this analysis, a "turbulence-induced DL cutoff" as a function of turbulence and instability parameters is introduced, which when combined with a turbulent flame speed without DL instability yields the turbulent flame speed accounting for the instability. The consumption turbulent flame speed for no DL instability is formulated from the spectral closure of the G equation, thus accounting for the scale-dependent "turbulent" nature of the problem. Finally, an analytical form of the turbulent flame speed is derived, which is found to agree well with the corresponding experimentally measured turbulent flame speed from literature over wide ranges of normalized turbulence intensities and length scales.
AB - Effects of Darrieus-Landau (DL) instability on the structure and propagation of turbulent premixed flame fronts are considered. By first hypothesizing separation of time scales of instability and turbulence, we estimate whether the instability can develop in the presence of turbulence of given flow rms-velocity and integral length scale. As a result, we modify the standard turbulent premixed combustion regime diagram by introducing new boundaries, limiting the domain where the instability influences the global flame shape and speed. Based on this analysis, a "turbulence-induced DL cutoff" as a function of turbulence and instability parameters is introduced, which when combined with a turbulent flame speed without DL instability yields the turbulent flame speed accounting for the instability. The consumption turbulent flame speed for no DL instability is formulated from the spectral closure of the G equation, thus accounting for the scale-dependent "turbulent" nature of the problem. Finally, an analytical form of the turbulent flame speed is derived, which is found to agree well with the corresponding experimentally measured turbulent flame speed from literature over wide ranges of normalized turbulence intensities and length scales.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.026322
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.026322
M3 - Article
C2 - 21929105
AN - SCOPUS:80052234735
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 84
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 026322
ER -