Diffusional-Thermal Theory of Cellular Flames
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Combustion Science and Technology
- Vol. 15 (3-4) , 137-145
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00102207708946779
Abstract
It is shown that the formation of cellular structure in a flame is conditioned by diffusion and heat conduction effects and is independent of the hydrodynamics of the perturbed flame. It is proved that cellular flames are formed only when a sufficiently light reactant of the combustible mixture is present in a low concentration. If there is an excess of the light reactant, a plane flame front is absolutely stable (in the framework of the diffusional-thermal model) or shows a noncellular periodic structure (hydrodynamic model)Keywords
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