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Numerical Study of Interaction between Hydrogen and Hydrocarbon Flames  

Oh, Chang-Bo (Division of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
Lee, Eui-Ju (Division of Safety Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.25, no.2, 2010 , pp. 12-17 More about this Journal
Abstract
Numerical simulations were performed for the prediction of the flame structure during the interaction between hydrogen and hydrocarbon flames. A counterflow flow geometry was introduced to establish the interacting two flames. Methane was used as a representative hydrocarbon fuel in this study. A well-known numerical code for the counterflow flame, OPPDIF, was used for the simulations. The detailed chemistry was adopted to predict the flame structure reasonably. The interaction of two one-dimensional premixed flames established in counterflow burner was investigated with the global strain rate and velocity ratio. It was found that the maximum temperature located near the methane flame surface while the heat release rate of methane was lower than hydrogen flame. The flame thickness become narrow with increasing the velocity ratio while the global strain rate was fixed. The local strain rate and heat release rate at the methane flame surface were correlated with the global strain rate, while those at the hydrogen flame were not correlated with the global strain rate. However, the maximum temperature of the interacting flames was correlated with the global strain rate.
Keywords
hydrogen; hydrocarbon; flame-flame interaction; counterflow flame; numerical simulation;
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