Part II
A visualization study on the effect of the forcing strength in tone-excited jet diffusion flames has been conducted. Visualization techniques are employed using the Schlieren technique, ICCD and 35mm still camera. A flame stability curve is a...
Part II
A visualization study on the effect of the forcing strength in tone-excited jet diffusion flames has been conducted. Visualization techniques are employed using the Schlieren technique, ICCD and 35mm still camera. A flame stability curve is acquired according to mean velocity at the nozzle exit and forcing strength at a fuel tube resonance frequency. The flame behavior is globally grouped into two regimes from attached flame to blow-out flame according to the forcing strength; one sticks the traditional flame behavior which has been observed in general jet diffusion flames and the other shows various flame modes such as the flame under a feeble forcing where traditionally well-organized vortex motion evolves, a fat flame, an elongated flame, and an in-burning flame. Particular attention is focused on an elongation flame which is associated with a turnabout phenomenon of the vortex motion, and on a reversal of the direction of the vortex roll-up. It is found that the flame length with the forcing strength have relation to the evolution process of the inner flow structure. Especially the negative part of the acoustic cycle under the influence of a strong negative pressure gradient changes the shapes of the fuel stem and fuel branch part, and even dramatically the direction of vortex roll-up.
Part II
An experimental study on the flame lift-off characteristics of a propane jet flame highly diluted with nitrogen has been conducted by introducing the acoustic forcing at a tube resonance frequency. A flame stability curve is obtained by varying the forcing strength and the nozzle exit velocity for N_(2)-diluted flames. The flame lift-off behavior with the forcing strength and the nozzle exit velocity is globally categorized into three regimes; 1) a premixed flame behavior caused by the collapsible mixing for the large forcing strength, 2) a coexistent behavior of the well-premixed and edge flames interacting with well-organized inner fuel vortices for moderate forcing strength, and 3) edge flame behavior for small forcing strength. The coexistent behavior of the flame base in a lifted flame is specially focused to investigate since it may have a hint that the flame base behaves like a well-mixed premixed flame at a certain condition in highly turbulent lifted flames. The acoustic forcing to a self-pulsating laminar lifted flame affects the flame lift-off behavior considerably which is closely related to the downstream flow velocity, the mixture strength, the effective Lewis number for a fuel, and the flame stretch.