Abstract

The effects of unburned-gas temperature and radiative heat loss on the intrinsic instability of premixed flames in cryogenic environment were studied. Unsteady reactive flow was calculated numerically, based on the compressible Navier-Stokes equation including chemical reaction and radiative heat loss. As the unburned-gas temperature became lower, the growth rate decreased and the unstable range narrowed, which was due to the reduction of the burning velocity of a planar flame. Considering radiative heat loss, the growth rate was smaller and the unstable range was narrower. On the other hand, the normalized growth rate increased as the unburned-gas temperature became lower. This was due to the strength of thermal-expansion effects and to the enlargement of Zeldovich numbers. Furthermore, cellular flames appeared owing to intrinsic instability. As the unburned-gas temperature became lower, the normalized burning velocity of a cellular flame increased. When radiative heat loss was considered, the normalized burning velocity of a cellular flame increased at small Lewis numbers and remained at Lewis number of unity.

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