The Stretch-Resistant Flames of Seshadri and Peters
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Combustion Science and Technology
- Vol. 43 (5) , 227-243
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00102208508947006
Abstract
The recent demonstration that radicals make a flame resistant to stretch has greatly enhanced our understanding of laminar flame behavior. Using chain-branchingJchain-breaking kinetics, proposed by Zeldovich and discussed by Linan, Seshadri and Peters have shown that (except in certain limits) the burning rate of the flame changes only in proportion to the (weak)stretch caused by slight flow divergence. Here we explore more fully the implications of their analysis showing, in particular, that the stretch decelerates the flame in all practical cases, as Karlovitz predicted.Keywords
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