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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Khalil Abo AmshaORCiD, Professor Nilanjan ChakrabortyORCiD
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© 2023, The Author(s).Moderate or Intense Low-oxygen Dilution (MILD) combustion has potential to achieve both high energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions. This analysis adopts the critical point theory to characterise the Flame-Self Interaction (FSI) events and flow topologies in turbulent, homogeneous mixture, n-Heptane MILD combustion using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) with reduced chemical mechanism. The local flame geometry has also been categorised using the mean and Gauss curvatures. It was found that the Tunnel Formation (TF) and Tunnel Closure (TC) topologies are the most probable FSI events at all values of the reaction progress variable c, while the Unburned Pocket (UP) and Burned Pocket (BP) topologies were mostly present towards the unburned and burned mixtures of the flame, respectively. Moreover, increasing the turbulence intensity did not result in any significant changes in the distribution of FSI events. Investigation of the flow topology distribution showed that the features associated with non-zero dilatation rate did not exist in the MILD cases considered. This is a consequence of the negligible thermal expansion effect due to the small temperature rise in MILD combustion cases. Increasing the dilution factor caused a reduction in the frequency of FSI events for all c levels. The distributions of flame self-interaction events in homogeneous mixture MILD combustion have been found to be significantly different from previously reported distributions for conventional turbulent premixed combustion.
Author(s): Abo-Amsha K, Chakraborty N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Year: 2023
Volume: 110
Pages: 671–687
Online publication date: 13/02/2023
Acceptance date: 27/01/2023
Date deposited: 08/02/2023
ISSN (print): 1386-6184
ISSN (electronic): 1573-1987
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-023-00401-w
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-023-00401-w
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