Numerical study of the effect of thermal boundary conditions and porous medium properties on the combustion in a combined porous-free flame burner

2018 ◽  
Vol 232 (7) ◽  
pp. 799-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Abdolmehdi Hashemi ◽  
Majid Nikfar ◽  
Seyed Amin Ghorashi
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Stability Limit ◽  
Chemical Mechanism ◽  
Pore Density ◽  
No Emission ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Wall Condition ◽  
Flame Burner

The effect of wall thermal conditions, pre-heating of the inlet air–fuel mixture ( Tin), and pore density of the porous medium (λ) on the stability limit and NO emission in a porous-free flame burner is numerically investigated. A reduced chemical mechanism and realizable k-ɛ turbulence model are used for the simulation. The numerical simulation is validated with the experimental data. The results show that the flame stability limit is extended with increasing the pore density while the maximum and minimum NO emissions are produced in pore densities of 8 ppc and 16 ppc, respectively. It is observed that the use of insulated wall condition causes the flame blow-off to occur at higher inlet velocities compared to that of the constant wall temperature condition. On the other hand, the use of constant wall temperature condition (cooled wall), causes flashback to occur in lower inlet velocities compared to that of the insulated wall. Constant wall temperature condition decreases NO emission in comparison with the insulated wall condition approximately by 18%. The flame stabilizes at higher inlet velocities and so stability limit is extended when inlet mixture temperature increases. This also causes NO emission to increase.

Numerical Solution for Boundary Layer Flow of a Dusty Micropolar Fluid Due to a Stretching Sheet with Constant Wall Temperature

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Anisah Dasman ◽  
Abdul Rahman Mohd Kasim ◽  
Iskandar Waini ◽  
Najiyah Safwa Khashi’ie
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Ordinary Differential Equations ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Micropolar Fluid ◽  
Stretching Sheet ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Particle Interaction ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature

This paper aims to present the numerical study of a dusty micropolar fluid due to a stretching sheet with constant wall temperature. Using the suitable similarity transformation, the governing partial differential equations for two-phase flows of the fluid and the dust particles are reduced to the form of ordinary differential equations. The ordinary differential equations are then numerically analysed using the bvp4c function in the Matlab software. The validity of present numerical results was checked by comparing them with the previous study. The results graphically show the numerical solutions of velocity, temperature and microrotation distributions for several values of the material parameter K, fluid-particle interaction parameter and Prandtl number for both fluid and dust phase. The effect of microrotation is investigated and analysed as well. It is found that the distributions are significantly influenced by the investigated parameters for both phases.

Investigation of the premixed methane–air combustion through the combined porous-free flame burner by numerical simulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 (6) ◽  
pp. 773-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Mohammad Hashemi ◽  
Seyed Abdolmehdi Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Stability Limit ◽  
Flame Stability ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Flame Thickness ◽  
Porous Burner ◽  
Flame Burner ◽  
Stability Limits

Combustion process of the premixed methane–air in a novel combined porous-free flame burner was investigated numerically. Two-dimensional model considering nonequilibrium thermal condition between the gas and solid phases was used and the combustion was simulated using reduced GRI 3.0 multistep chemical kinetics mechanism. To examine the validity of the implemented numerical model, the burner was manufactured and tested. Good agreement between the numerical results and experimental data were observed. Thermal flame thickness, flame stability limit, and thermal efficiency were discussed. Multimode heat transfer in the porous medium including convection, radiation, and conduction were quantified and perused. Results showed that the thermal thickness of laminar free flame established in the perforated portion of the burner was considerably less than thickness of submerged flame stabilized in the porous medium. Predicted results suggested that the flame stability limit was augmented in the combined burner compared to the burner with full porous foam. Analyses of the heat balance showed that the thermal efficiency of the combined porous-free flame burner was less than thermal efficiency of the full porous burner. Comparison of the full porous burner with the novel combined porous-free flame burner demonstrated that the combined burner caused higher stability limits and lower thermal efficiencies.

Numerical study on the combustion characteristics in a porous-free flame burner for lean mixtures

2019 ◽  
Vol 234 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Amin Ghorashi ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Hashemi ◽  
Seyed Abdolmehdi Hashemi ◽  
Mahdi Mollamahdi
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Kinetic Mechanism ◽  
Chemical Kinetic ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Flame Stability ◽  
Porous Burner ◽  
Flame Burner

The present work implements a numerical simulation to investigate the combustion process in a porous-free flame burner. The non-equilibrium thermal condition is performed, and discretization and solving of the governing equations are conducted in a two-dimensional axisymmetric model. In order to simulate the combustion process, a reduced chemical kinetic mechanism of GRI 3.0, which includes 16 species and 41 reactions, is used. In order to prove the precision of the numerical method, some experimental tests are carried out and the numerical results are in a good agreement with the experimental measurements. The numerical results demonstrate that the porous-free flame burner has a higher flame stability compared to the conventional porous burner and the radiative efficiency of the porous-free flame burner is less than the porous burner. In addition, an increase in thermal conduction of the porous medium leads to an extension in the flame stability. In addition, the results show that with decreasing the pore density of porous medium, the flame stability is extended.

scholarly journals HEAT TRANSFER FOR FILN BOILING OF A LIQUID ON A VERTICAL HEATED WALL IN A POROUS MEDIUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
A.A. Avramenko ◽  
M.M. Kovetskaya ◽  
E.A. Kondratieva ◽  
T.V. Sorokina
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Wall Temperature ◽  
Heated Wall ◽  
Film Boiling ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Constant Wall Temperature ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients

The paper presents results of the modelling of heat transfer at film boiling of a liquid in a porous medium on a vertical heated wall. Such processes are observed at cooling of high-temperature surfaces of heat pipes, microstructural radiators etc. Heating conditions at the wall were the constant wall temperature or heat flux. An analytical solution was obtained for the problem of fluid flow and heat transfer using the porous medium model in the Darcy-Brinkman. It was shown that heat transfer at film boiling in a porous medium was less intensive than in the absence of a porous medium (free fluid flow) and further decreased with the decreasing permeability of the porous medium. A sharp decrease in heat transfer was observed for the Darcy numbers lower than five. The analytical predictions of heat transfer coefficients qualitatively agreed with the data [14] though demonstrated lower values of heat transfer coefficients for the conditions of the constant wall temperature and constant wall heat flux.

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