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http://dx.doi.org/10.14346/JKOSOS.2011.26.2.032

Local Behaviour of Propagating Flames in an Explosion Chamber  

Park, Dal-Jae (Department of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
Lee, Young-Soon (Department of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.26, no.2, 2011 , pp. 32-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
Experimental studies were carried out in an explosion chamber to investigate the influences of multiple cylinder obstacles on local flame propagation. The chamber dimension is 235 mm in height with a $1,000{\times}950\;mm^2$ rectangular cross section and a large vent area of $1,000{\times}320\;mm^2$. Multiple cylinder bars with obstruction ratio of 30% were used. In order to examine the interaction between the propagating flames and the obstacles, temporally resolved flame front images were recorded by a high speed video camera. The propagation behaviour of local flame fronts around the left obstacle was analyzed in terms of two different methods such as the incremental burnt area divided by the flame front length and the average of the local propagation velocity determined at each point along the flame front. It was found that two methods give good consistency.
Keywords
averaged flame velocity; incremental burnt area; flame front length; obstacle;
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