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7.1. INTRODUCTION 209<br />

300<br />

250<br />

TURBULENT FLAME SPEED, cm/s<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

0<br />

10 20 30 40x10 3<br />

REYNOLDS NUMBER OF PIPE FLOW<br />

Figure 7.2: Variation of flame speed with Reynolds number of flow.<br />

locity is half of that for a Reynolds number 3 × 10 4 . Other measurements have given<br />

turbulent velocities consi<strong>de</strong>rably higher than these observed here.<br />

From the theoretical stand-point several attempts have been ma<strong>de</strong> to explain the<br />

activation of combustion due to turbulence. The first attempt was ma<strong>de</strong> by Damköhler<br />

[2] who pointed-out two causes for the action of turbulence. One is the increase in the<br />

transport coefficients (conductivity and diffusion) due to turbulent diffusivity. The second<br />

cause is the distortion of the laminar flame front due to the turbulent oscillations<br />

of the velocity which would increase, consi<strong>de</strong>rably, the effective surface of the combustion<br />

front. The importance of either one of these two factors would <strong>de</strong>pend in each<br />

case on the relation between the scale of turbulence and the thickness of the laminar

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