Title: Effect of high Lewis number on the non-adiabatic premixed flame edges

Authors: E. Al-Sarairah

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate numerically the influence of heat loss and Damköhler number, which is inversely proportional to the square of strain rate, on the edges of premixed flames in a two dimensional counterflow for Lewis numbers greater than unity. The propagation speed of flame edges is plotted against Damköhler numbers for different values of the heat loss parameter showing a multiple flame edge solutions in the form of S shaped curves.

Keywords: laminar premixed flames; flame edges; counterflow; heat loss; Lewis numbers; strain rate; propagation speed; Damkoehler numbers.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESMS.2017.081731

International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 2017 Vol.9 No.1, pp.12 - 19

Received: 29 Aug 2015
Accepted: 20 Nov 2015
Published online: 24 Jan 2017 *

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