BLOWOFF CHARACTERISTICS IN INTERACTING PREMIXED V-FLAMES
Open Access
- Area of Honors:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Jacqueline Antonia O'connor, Thesis Supervisor
- Hosam Kadry Fathy, Honors Advisor
- Keywords:
- Combustion
- Flame Interaction
- Blow off
- Abstract:
- Flame interaction is a common phenomenon in many common combustion applications thatcan have a leading order effect on flame stabilization. In particular, flame stabilization is a key performance metric in low-emissions gas turbine engines for both aircraft and power generation applications. In this study, we explore the impact flame interaction on blowoff characteristics and flame shape on three two-dimensional bluff-body stabilized flames by varying the spacing between the bluff bodies and the velocity of the incoming flow. Flame locations are extracted from particle image velocimetry (PIV) data to study the differences in blowoff limits between two different bluff-body spacing configurations all at the same entering bulk flow velocity. Increasing the flame spacing led to wider flamesand less interaction. Geometric and flow profile effects are discussed with respect to flame interaction and blowoff phenomena.