Improvement of Turbulent Burning Velocity Measurements by Schlieren Technique, for High Pressure Isooctane-Air Premixed Flames

Pierre Brequigny (1) , Charles Endouard (1) , Fabrice Foucher (1) , Christine Mounaïm-Rousselle (1)

1 PRISME - Laboratoire pluridisciplinaire de recherche en ingénierie des systèmes, mécanique et énergétique

As in most industrial cases, the expansion of premixed flames in Spark-Ignition (SI) engines is strongly affected by turbulence flow fields. However, as the flame radius and curvature are non-negligible during combustion development, the global stretch effect can drastically change the turbulent flame propagation speed. In this paper, spherical turbulent premixed flames were studied inside a constant-volume vessel for a wide range of air-isooctane mixtures, initial turbulent intensities and pressures by using simultaneously Mie scattering tomography and 2-View Schlieren imaging. The comparison between different radii enabled non-convected flames with a global spherical shape to be selected and the validity of a correction factor, first introduced by Bradley et al., was assessed. A set of turbulent flame speeds was obtained and the evolution as a function of the global stretch rate was analyzed. Various turbulent flame speed definitions were also evaluated on two different datasets.

Mots clés: Turbulent flame speed; spherical expanding flame; iso-octane-air mixture

Domaines: Milieux fluides et réactifs

Pierre Brequigny, Charles Endouard, Fabrice Foucher, Christine Mounaïm-Rousselle. Improvement of Turbulent Burning Velocity Measurements by Schlieren Technique, for High Pressure Isooctane-Air Premixed Flames. Combustion Science and Technology, 2020, 192 (3), pp.416-432. ⟨10.1080/00102202.2019.1566226⟩. ⟨hal-02132947⟩