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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volume 47, 2015

Ignition, Liftoff, and Extinction of Gaseous Diffusion Flames

Abstract

This review uses as a vehicular example the jet-flame configuration to examine some phenomena that emerge in nonpremixed gaseous combustion as a result of the interaction between the temperature-sensitive chemical reaction, typical of combustion, and the convective and diffusive transport. These include diffusion-controlled flames, edge flames and their role in flame attachment, triple flames and their role as ignition fronts, and strain-induced extinction, including flame-vortex interactions. The aim is to give an overall view of the fluid dynamics of nonpremixed combustion and to review the most relevant contributions.

Keyword(s): flame blow-off, lifted flames, strain-induced extinction, triple flames, vortex-flame interactions
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Ignition, Liftoff, and Extinction of Gaseous Diffusion Flames
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