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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095866
Copy DOIJournal: Physics of Fluids | Publication Date: Jun 1, 2022 |
Citations: 7 | License type: mit |
While the flamelet paradigm offers the opportunity to simplify computations of mean species concentrations in turbulent flames, a widely accepted criterion of the validity of this paradigm has not yet been elaborated. In this regard, different physical mechanisms are discussed, and flame folding is one of them. The present work aims at exploring the eventual influence of flame folding on the local flame structure in a turbulent flow. For this purpose, a new diagnostic technique was applied to processing complex-chemistry direct numerical simulation data obtained earlier from a lean hydrogen-air turbulent flame [Dave and Chaudhuri, J. Fluid Mech. 884, A46 (2020)]. The technique consists of counting crossing numbers Nf for a cold boundary of the local reaction zone and a ray normal to the mean flame brush, followed by analyzing statistics sampled from rays characterized by Nf≥3. More specifically, profiles of species mole fractions, temperature, heat release rate, and species production rates, conditioned to combustion progress variable and either Nf or axial distance Δx between two neighboring reaction zones, are sampled and compared with the counterpart profiles obtained from the laminar flame. Results show that these doubly conditioned profiles are close to each other for various crossing numbers or for various axial distances even if the distance is as small as half laminar flame thickness. The lack of a substantial effect of the crossing number or the axial distance on the doubly conditioned profiles implies that small-scale flame folding does not limit the validity of the flamelet paradigm.
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