• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.57-62
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• 2009

Flame spread velocity to virgin surface fuel bed on a ground slope increases as the flame gets closer to the slope according to the change of a ground slope angle. The existing studies have generally adopted the theory that flame gets closer to the slope as the slope angle increases, without considering the change of flame tilt against the slope. In this study, experiments were made on the actual characteristics of the flame on slopes of various angles, and as a result, this study offers the flame tilt equation according to the slope angle, and derive correlation between flame tilt and flame spread velocity on slope conditions.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.90-95
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• 2009

The wind is very important factor in forest fire spread. Flame spread has a change through wind pattern change in forest fire. In order to analyze the forest fire flame spread rate, change of flame tilt depending on wind may be considering first. This is be cause the flame spread rate varies by the flame tilt changed due to transfer of heat. Especially, as wind speed grow, flame gets closer to surface, heat transfer ratio increase, virgin fuel bed reaches ignition temperature more rapidly, and flame moves faster. This study deduces, through experiment and physical figure analysis, relations on the change behavior of flame tilt due to wind. The value of flame tilt angle calculated from the equation and the experiment value showed average error angle of $3.3^{\circ}$, which is relatively smaller than results of previous studies that used other coefficient. Froude number coefficient A can be calculated in the method provided in this research for estimation of flame tilt angle of virgin fuel bed with varying thermal properties. The research finding is expected to be applied to future studies on flame spread through numerical analysis of heat transfer.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.145-152
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• 1998

실내에서 가스폭발시 피해를 예측하기 위해서 폭발 화염면의 전파를 수치해석을 통해 해석했다. 확산방정식에 의해 가스누출에 의한 실내의 가스확산분포를 구했으며 문헌에서 선택한 누출의 초기조건을 사용했다. 화염온도를 계산하기 위해 각 가스 혼합비에 따른 엔탈피와 화학식에 대한 reduced mechanism을 사용했으며 문헌에서 찾은 각 가스의 농도별 층류 연소속도를 혼합가스의 층류연소속도에 적용시켰다. k-$\varepsilon$ 모델에서 turbulance energy를 층류연소속도와 결합시켜 난류화염 전파속도를 모델링 했다. 화염면의 전파를 분석하기 위해 실내의 위치에는 직각, 화염면의 전파에는 원통좌표계를 사용했다. 유리창의 파손에 의한 화염전파면의 변화에 따른 압력상승 요인을 해석하였으며 창문의 크기에 따라서 점화위치에 따른 실내 압력상승의 영향이 서로 다르게 나타나는 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.295-298
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• 2006

Experiments in methane-air low strain rate counterflow diffusion flames diluted with nitrogen have been conducted to study the behavior of flame extinction and edge flame oscillation in which lateral conduction heat loss in addition to radiative heat loss could be remarkable at low global strain rates. Onset conditions of edge flame oscillation and flame oscillation modes are also provided with global strain rate. It is seen that flame length is closely relevant to lateral heat loss, and this affects flame extinction and edge flame oscillation. Edge flame oscillations in low strain rate flames are categorized into three: a growing oscillation mode, a decaying oscillation mode, and a harmonic oscillation mode. The regime of flame oscillation is also provided at low strain rate flames.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.595-598
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• 2011

Supersonic combustion phenomena in the main combustor of a dual combustion ramjet (DCR) engine are studied numerically. Since the supersonic combustion is affected significantly by the compressibility effects parametric studies have been carried out for the constant are length and the divergence angle. Numerical studies with fixed inflow condition for different geometric configurations reveals that the supersonic combustion in DCR combustor has the characteristics of lifting flame, where the lifting flame is maintained near the injector tip for the case of long combustor length with small divergence angle, but the lifting height is significantly increase for large divergence angle resulting flame blow-out of the combustor. Therefore, it is concluded that flame stability should be considered sufficiently in the design o DCR combustor.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.14-20
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• 2007

In this study, characteristics of jet type flame holder for ramjet engine combustors are investigated Jet flame holder can be easily controlled by the injection angle change and jet momentum variation without any thermal protection devices. Due to the intensive turbulent mixing effect, jet flame holder shows better flame holding performance than mechanical flame holders such as cavity, step and v-shape flame holder.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1547-1556
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a flame detection method using region expansions and on-line variances in outdoor infrared video sequences. To segment flame candidates' regions in infrared images, we first, extract initial regions by high threshold values in infrared images and then the segmented regions are expanded to their neighbors with similar high intensity values. The segmented regions could be non-flame areas like bare-grounds and buildings. Therefore, to detect flame regions in the segmented regions, the segmented regions which have high intensity values in infrared image, are tracked using bounding regions in frame sequences. Variances in the tracked regions are calculated effectively by on-line updates to measure intensity variations on the tracked regions. Experiments show that the proposed method, which is based on region expansions and the average of on-line variances in the regions, is efficient to detect flames in infrared image.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 2003

Several equipments for flame detection are employed in the power generations. But these flame detectors have some problems for the correct performance. So in this paper, we apply different techniques for the flame detection. Image processing techniques are broadly applied in industrial fields. In this paper, the image information is recorded by a camcoder and then these images are preprocessed for the input values of neural network model. We can test and evaluate the approach that uses image information for the flame detection of burners. If this technique is implemented in physical plant, the economical and effective operation could be achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.4-4
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• 1999

최근 충남대에서는 다양한 추진제와 연소 조건으로 액체로켓 연소 실험이 진행되고 있으며 그에 비례하여 많은 사고들이 발생하고 있다. 한 예로 GO$_2$/kerosene을 추진제로 하는 노즐삭마 시험용 로켓엔진(추력 1001bf, 연소실 압력 600psia) 개발 중에 화염이 인젝터면에 형성되어 인젝터면을 손상시키는 사고를 여러 번 경험하게 되었다. 본 연구는 인젝터 손상의 원인을 규명하여 안정적인 인젝터 설계에 도움을 주기 위한 목적으로 실험용 동축 인젝터를 제작하여 화염 부상 특성을 실험적으로 연구하였다. 사용된 인젝터는 연료인 Kerosene을 접선형 선회기로부터 90$^{\circ}$의 원뿔 각을 가지고 분무되도록 설계하였으며, 그 주위로 산하제인 GO$_2$가 연소실의 축방향에 수평하게 분무되도록 설계하였다. 2-유체 동축 인젝터의 난류 확산 화염에서 연료와 산화제의 혼합은 화염 특성을 결정하는 주요 변수이므로 인젝터로부터 분무되는 추진제간의 유량을 변화시켜 화염 부상 특성을 연구하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.729-738
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• 2010

The characteristics of lifted butane flames diluted with nitrogen have been investigated experimentally in order to elucidate the mechanism of individual flame oscillation modes. Flame oscillations in laminar free-jet lift-off flames are classified into the following five regimes: a stabilized lift-off regime (I), a heat-loss-induced oscillation (II), a buoyancy-induced oscillation along with a heat-loss-induced oscillation (III), a combined form of an oscillation prior to blow-out and a heat-loss-induced oscillation (IV), and a combination of an oscillation prior to blow-out and a buoyancy-induced oscillation along with a heat-loss-induced oscillation (V). The characterization of the individual flame oscillations modes are presented and discussed using Strouhal numbers and their relevant parameters by the analysis of the power spectrum for temporal variation of the lift-off height.