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134 CHAPTER 6. LAMINAR FLAMES<br />

5) Method of the flat burner (Egerton-Pauling, Spalding-Botha). Indicated for mixtures<br />

with a low flame velocity.<br />

At the same time, several attempts have been ma<strong>de</strong>, with limited success, to<br />

measure the distribution of certain variables through the flame in or<strong>de</strong>r to analyze<br />

its structure. Information of this matter may be found in the above mentioned work<br />

by Linnet and in the Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Combustion.<br />

Initially, attempts were ma<strong>de</strong> to obtain temperature profiles whose results show<br />

a fair agreement with theoretical predictions. Later on, attempts were ma<strong>de</strong> to obtain<br />

distributions of the concentration of the main species, and finally, of the radicals.<br />

These observations are difficult due to the small thickness of the flame. Although it<br />

may be increased by reducing pressure, then the perturbation effects of the measuring<br />

instruments and of radiation become more important, and it is difficult to know the<br />

magnitu<strong>de</strong> of the corrections which must be introduced into the results obtained so<br />

that the values be exact.<br />

In the following paragraphs of this chapter, we shall <strong>de</strong>duce and discuss the<br />

flame equations, its boundary conditions and the methods of integration most commonly<br />

used. The application of the theory to some practical cases will be performed<br />

in §13, 14 and 15.<br />

6.2 Equation for the combustion wave in the case of<br />

two chemical species<br />

The equations for the propagation of a plane stationary combustion wave were <strong>de</strong>duced<br />

in the preceding chapter, system B, un<strong>de</strong>r the following assumptions:<br />

1) There are only two different chemical species, reactants and products.<br />

2) The mixture behaves like a perfect gas.<br />

3) The specific heat of the mixture is in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt from its composition and temperature.<br />

The system obtained un<strong>de</strong>r these conditions, referred to the axis advancing with the<br />

wave, and preserving the notation previously used, is as follows:<br />

a) Continuity equation.<br />

ρv = m (6.1)<br />

b) Chemical reaction equation.<br />

m dε = w(Y, p, T ) (6.2)<br />

dx

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