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The effects of sooting in droplet combustion

Author
Lee, Kyeong-Ook
Published
Aug 1, 1995.
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Choi, Mun Young and Jensen, Kirk
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Summary
The study of the burning of a single droplet is an ideal problem from which to gain fundamental understanding of diffusion flame characteristics. Droplet combustion is a complex physico-chemical process that involves a chemically-reacting two-phase flow with phase changes and yet simple experiments and analysis can be used to attain important insights into the burning rate, flame dynamics, kinetic extinction and disruption processes. It is a subject that has been actively studied for the past 40 years with most of the fundamental experiments being performed under reduced-gravity conditions for direct comparisons with theoretical/computational analyses that invoke spherical symmetry assumptions. In the earlier studies, the effects of sooting on the overall burning characteristics were not considered. However, recent microgravity investigations performed at the NASA-LeRC droptowers (Droplet Combustion Experiment) and others indicate that effects of soot and sootcloud formation may be significant during the lifetime of the droplet and therefore must be included in the analysis.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19960008393.
Accession ID: 96N15559.
NASA. Lewis Research Center, The 3rd International Microgravity Combustion Workshop; p 53-58.
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