Mechanisms of Microgravity Flame Spread Over a Thin Solid Fuel: Oxygen and Opposed Flow Effects
作者:
S. L. OLSON,
期刊:
Combustion Science and Technology
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 76,
issue 4-6
页码: 233-249
ISSN:0010-2202
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1080/00102209108951711
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: microgravity;flame spread;diffusion flame;thermally-thin solid;opposed-flow;mechanisms
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Microgravity tests varying oxygen concentration and forced flow velocity have examined the importance of transport processes on flame spread over very thin solid fuels. Flame spread rates, solid phase temperature profiles and flame appearance for these tests are measured. A flame spread map is presented which indicates three distinct regions where different mechanisms control the flame spread process. In the near-quenching region (very low characteristic relative velocities) a new controlling mechanism for flame spread—oxidizer transport-limited chemical reaction—is proposed. In the near-limit, blowoff region, high opposed flow velocities impose residence time limitations on the flame spread process. A critical characteristic relative velocity line between the two near-limit regions defines conditions which result in maximum fiammability both in terms of a peak flame spread rate and minimum oxygen concentration for steady burning. In the third region, away from both near-limit regions, the flame spread behavior, which can accurately be descibcd by a thermal theory, is controlled by gas-phase conduction.
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