Computational and experimental study of ammonium perchlorate/ethylene counterflow diffusion flames

M. D. Smooke, R. A. Yetter, T. P. Parr, D. M. Hanson-Parr, M. A. Tanoff, M. B. Colket, R. J. Hall

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Abstract

We investigated the modeling of counterflow diffusion flames in which the products of ammonium perchlorate (AP) combustion were counterflowed against an ethylene fuel stream. The two-dimensional problem can be reduced to a one-dimensional boundary value problem along the stagnation point streamline through the introduction of a similarity transformation. By utilizing recent developments in hydrocarbon, chlorine, NOx and AP kinetics, we formulated a detailed transport, finite-rate chemistry system for the temperature, velocity, and species mass fractions of the combined flame system. A detailed soot model is included which can predict soot volume fractions as a function of the strain rate and the fuel mole fraction. We compare the results of this model with a series of experimental measurements in which the temperature was measured with radiation-corrected thermocouples and OH rotational population distribution; several important species were measured with planar laser-induced fluorescence, UV-visible absorption, and Raman spectroscopies; and the soot volume fraction was measured with laser-induced incandescence and visible absorption spectroscopy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2013-2020
Number of pages8
JournalProceedings of the Combustion Institute
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Event30th International Symposium on Combustion - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Jul 25 2004Jul 30 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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