Abstract
A two-dimensional direct numerical simulations was peformed to investigate the flame structure of $CH_4/N_2$-Air counterflow nonpremixed flame interacting with a single vortex. The detailed transport properties and a modified 16-step augmented reduced mechanism based on Miller and Bowman's detailed reaction mechanism were adopted in this calculation. To quantify the strain on flame induced by a vortex, a scalar dissipation rate (SDR) is introduced. Results show that the fuel- and air-side vortex cause an unsteady extinction. In this case, the flame interacting with a vortex is extinguished in much larger SDR than steady flame. It was also found that air- side vortex extinguishes a flame more rapidly than fuel -side vortex.
