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216 CHAPTER 7. TURBULENT FLAMES<br />

ARBITRARY WAVY FLAME FRONT<br />

BURNED GAS<br />

FRESH GAS<br />

FLAME FRONT AFTER ∆t TIME<br />

Figure 7.6: The effect of laminar flame propagation on the evolution of a turbulent flame<br />

front.<br />

Since the locus of an element of the flame at two different instants are related<br />

to two different particles of the mixture, when calculating the influence of turbulent<br />

diffusivity on ¯X, a combined time-space coefficient of correlation R tx should be used<br />

substituting coefficient time-correlation R t in Taylor’s formula [17].<br />

The influence of the laminar propagation of the flame in the value of ¯X may<br />

be obtained through purely geometric consi<strong>de</strong>rations. Finally, the influence of the<br />

turbulence generated by the flame is taken into consi<strong>de</strong>ration by substituting into the<br />

expression of ¯X, the intensity v ′ of turbulence of the unburnt gases flow by the resultant<br />

of it, plus the intensity of the turbulence originated by the flame.<br />

The combination of these three effects gives a differential equation which in<br />

turn supplies the law of variation for ¯X as a function of time t during which the<br />

particle has been exposed to turbulent oscillations. This differential equation replaces<br />

Taylor’s equation (7.18) for this case. Through integration of this equation the value<br />

for ¯X is obtained, and when taken into Eq. (7.22) it gives a formula for the propagation<br />

velocity of the turbulent flame.<br />

Now we must <strong>de</strong>termine the time t that each element of the flame has been<br />

exposed to the action of turbulence. Scurlock consi<strong>de</strong>rs only flames inclined respect<br />

to the flow such as the one obtained with a flame-hol<strong>de</strong>r or from the ring of a bunsen<br />

burner. He i<strong>de</strong>ntifies t with the time taken by a gas particle to cross the flame front<br />

from the hol<strong>de</strong>rs section to the point un<strong>de</strong>r consi<strong>de</strong>ration. Let v t by the component<br />

tangential to the flame front of the velocity of the unburnt gases and s the distance to<br />

the flame-hol<strong>de</strong>r measured along the flame front. The following expression is obtained<br />

for t<br />

t =<br />

∫ s<br />

0<br />

ds<br />

v t<br />

. (7.26)

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