Effects of water droplet injection on turbulent premixed flame propagation: a direct numerical simulation investigation

Author:

Ozel-Erol Gulcan,Hasslberger Josef,Chakraborty Nilanjan,Klein MarkusORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe influence of water droplet injection on the propagation rate of statistically planar stoichiometric n-heptane-air flames has been analysed based on three-dimensional carrier phase Direct Numerical Simulations for different turbulence intensities and different initially mono-sized droplets. It has been found that most water droplets do not completely evaporate within the flame due to their large latent heat of evaporation for the conditions considered here. Thus, the cooling effect due to the extraction of latent heat during the evaporation of water droplets dominates over the dilution of the concentration of reactants and gives rise to smaller reaction rate of reaction progress variable and thicker flame front than in the corresponding premixed turbulent flame without droplets. These effects (a) strengthen with decreasing droplet size due to higher rate of evaporation for smaller droplets, but (b) weaken with an increase in turbulence intensity. The interaction of water droplets with the flame affects the density-weighted displacement speed through its reaction and molecular diffusion components and the magnitudes of these components remain much greater than the components due to cross-scalar dissipation rate and two-phase coupling. The flame-water droplet interaction for the parameter range considered here acts to reduce the mean density-weighted displacement speed, consumption speed and turbulent flame speed, and this reduction becomes increasingly prominent with decreasing droplet diameter. However, it has been found that the presence of water droplets does not alter the qualitative nature of the strain rate and curvature dependences of both density-weighted displacement speed and consumption speed for the range of parameters considered here, but the correlation strength is altered by the presence of water droplets.

Funder

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

dtec.bw

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,General Chemical Engineering

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