Abstract
Abstract Detailed numerical calculations are performed to determine the structure of heptane-air diffusion flames, and the results are compared with experimental measurements. The configuration used is the diffusion flame stabilized in the vicinity of a stagnation plane, which is formed by directing an oxidi2ing gas flow onto the vaporizing surface of a pool of heptane. Profiles of the concentration of various stable species and of the temperature have been measured by gas chromatography and by thermocouples. respectively. To evaluate the influence of strain on the structure or the flame, the measurements taken at a fixed composition of the oxidizer stream and at two values of the strain rate were chosen for comparison with the calculated results. The computations were performed using a chemical kinetic mechanism consisting of forty-two elementary reactions involving eighteen species. To simplify the chemical kinetic mechanism, it was assumed that heptane is attacked by radicals to form the heptyl radical...
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