Abstract
Gas explosion in confined space often leads to significant pressure oscillation. It is widely recognized that structural damage can be severe when the oscillation frequency of the load resonates with the natural vibration frequency of the structure. To reveal the oscillation mechanism of gas explosion load, the experiment of gas explosion was conducted in a large-scale confined tube with the length of 30 m, and the explosion process was numerically analyzed using FLACS. The results show that the essential cause of oscillation effect is the reflection of the pressure wave. In addition, due to the difference in the propagation path of the pressure wave, the load oscillation frequency at the middle position of the tunnel is twice that at the end position. The average sound velocity can be used to calculate the oscillation frequency of overpressure accurately, and the error is less than 15%. The instability of the flame surface and the increase of flame turbulence caused by the interaction between the pressure wave and the flame surface are the main contributors to the increase in overpressure and amplitude. The overpressure peaks calculated by the existing flame instability model and turbulence disturbance model are 31.7% and 34.7% lower than the numerical results, respectively. The turbulence factor model established in this work can describe the turbulence enhancement effect caused by flame instability and oscillatory load, and the difference between the theoretical and numerical results is only 4.6%. In the theoretical derivation of the overpressure model, an improved model of dynamic turbulence factor is established, which can describe the enhancement effect of turbulence factor caused by flame instability and self-turbulence. Based on the one-dimensional propagation theory of pressure wave, the oscillatory effect of the load is derived to calculate the frequency and amplitude of pressure oscillation. The average error of amplitude and frequency is less than 20%.
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