Dynamics of cool flames

Y Ju, CB Reuter, OR Yehia, TI Farouk… - Progress in Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cool flames play a critical role in ignition timing, burning rate, burning limits, engine
knocking, and emissions in conventional and advanced combustion engines. This paper …

Laminar flame speeds of methane/air mixtures at engine conditions: Performance of different kinetic models and power-law correlations

Y Wang, A Movaghar, Z Wang, Z Liu, W Sun… - Combustion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The laminar flame speed is an important input in turbulent premixed combustion modelling
of spark ignition engines. At engine-relevant temperatures and pressures, its measurement …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of radiation on laminar flame speed determination in spherically propagating NH3-air, NH3/CH4-air and NH3/H2-air flames at normal temperature and …

M Faghih, A Valera-Medina, Z Chen, A Paykani - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of spherically propagating flames is common for measuring the laminar flame
speed in NH 3-air, NH 3/CH 4-air and NH 3/H 2-air mixtures. However, the radiation-induced …

Structures and propagation speeds of autoignition-assisted premixed n-heptane/air cool and warm flames at elevated temperatures and pressures

T Zhang, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
The laminar flame speeds and structures of near-limit autoignition-assisted cool and warm n-
heptane/air flames at different ignition Damkӧhler numbers which are the ratios between …

Experimental measurements of n-heptane flame speeds behind reflected shock waves with variable extents of pre-flame auto-ignition chemistry

L Zheng, M Figueroa-Labastida, JW Streicher… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The flame speeds of premixed stoichiometric n-heptane/21% O 2-79% Ar (so-called
“airgon”) flames with different extents of pre-flame auto-ignition chemistry were …

Heat Release Rate Markers for Highly Stretched Premixed CH4/Air and CH4/H2/Air Flames

X Chen, Y Wang, T Zirwes, F Zhang, H Bockhorn… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Accurate quantification of heat release rate (HRR) profiles is useful for identifying important
combustion processes in practical engines. This study aims to show whether the …

Studies of the dynamics of autoignition assisted outwardly propagating spherical cool and double flames under shock-tube conditions

T Zhang, AJ Susa, RK Hanson, Y Ju - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The initiation, propagation, and transition of the autoignition assisted spherical cool flame
and double flame are studied numerically and experimentally using n-heptane/air/He …

Detonation development in hydrogen/air mixtures inside a closed chamber: role of a cold wall

H Li, Z Chen - Proceedings of the combustion institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Detonation development from a hot spot has been extensively studied, where ignition occurs
earlier than that in the surrounding mixtures. It has also been reported that a cool spot can …

Detonation development from a hot spot in methane/air mixtures: Effects of kinetic models

J Su, P Dai, Z Chen - International Journal of Engine …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Natural gas is a promising alternative fuel which can be used in internal combustion engines
to achieve low carbon emission and high thermal efficiency. However, at high compression …

Effects of unburnt reaction progress on stretch flame dynamics under elevated temperatures

K Akita, P Zhao, Y Morii, K Maruta, D Splitter… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Flames in practical combustors and engines are inevitably subject to the effects of upstream
chemical reaction progress and stretch, induced by elevated thermodynamic conditions and …