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The slowly reacting mode of combustion of gaseous mixtures in spherical vessels. Part 2: buoyancy-induced motion and its effect on the explosion limits

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidoses
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Mecánica de Fluidoses
dc.contributor.authorSánchez Pérez, Antonio Luis
dc.contributor.authorIglesias Estradé, María Inmaculada
dc.contributor.authorMoreno Boza, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorLiñán Martínez, Amable
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Forman Arthur
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-15T10:12:27Z
dc.date.available2022-07-15T10:12:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-14
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the effect of buoyancy-driven motion on the quasi-steady “slowly reacting” mode of combustion and on its thermal-explosion limits, for gaseous mixtures enclosed in a spherical vessel with a constant wall temperature. Following Frank-Kamenetskii’s seminal analysis of this problem, the strong temperature dependence of the effective overall reaction rate is taken into account by using a single-reaction model with an Arrhenius rate having a large activation energy, resulting in a critical value of the vessel radius above which the slowly reacting mode of combustion no longer exists. In his contant-density, convection-free analysis, the critical conditions were found to depend on the value of a Damk¨ohler number, defined as the ratio of the time for the heat released by the reaction to be conducted to the wall, to the homogeneous explosion time evaluated at the wall temperature. For gaseous mixtures under normal gravity, the critical Damk¨ohler number increases through the effect of buoyancy-induced motion on the rate of heat conduction to the wall, measured by an appropriate Rayleigh number Ra. In the present analysis, for small values of Ra, the temperature is given in the first approximation by the spherically symmetric Frank-Kamenetskii solution, used to calculate the accompanying gas motion, an axisymmetric annular vortex determined at leading order by the balance between viscous and buoyancy forces, which we call the FrankKamenetskii vortex. This flow is used in the equation for conservation of energy to evaluate the influence of convection on explosion limits for small Ra, resulting in predicted critical Damk¨ohler numbers that are accurate up to values of Ra on the order of a few hundred.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Spanish MCINN through project # CSD2010- 00010. FAW is supported by the US National Science Foundation through award #CBET-1404026.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationSánchez, A. L., Iglesias, I., Moreno-Boza, D., Liñán, A., & Williams, F. A. (2016). The slowly reacting mode of combustion of gaseous mixtures in spherical vessels. Part 2: Buoyancy-induced motion and its effect on the explosion limits. In Combustion Theory and Modelling, 20(6), 1029–1045en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13647830.2016.1242781
dc.identifier.issn1364-7830
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1029
dc.identifier.publicationissue6
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage1045
dc.identifier.publicationtitleCOMBUSTION THEORY AND MODELLINGen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume20
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/35476
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000018508
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. CSD2010- 00010es
dc.rights© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaIngeniería Mecánicaes
dc.subject.otherThermal Explosionen
dc.subject.otherLaminar Reacting Flowsen
dc.subject.otherBuoyancy-Induced Flowen
dc.subject.otherThermal-Explosionen
dc.subject.otherNatural-Convectionen
dc.subject.otherStabilityen
dc.titleThe slowly reacting mode of combustion of gaseous mixtures in spherical vessels. Part 2: buoyancy-induced motion and its effect on the explosion limitsen
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