NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF LAMINAR FLAMES OF METHANOL SOAKED WICK UNDER THE CONFIGURATION OF HETEROGENOUS CROSS FLOWPages 109-117
Hariharan D.,
Abstract
Methanol economy is considered to be a potential future economy which offers an alternative to the depleting fossil fuels and proposed hydrogen economy for the transportation fuel. Motivated from this interest, a research conducted on estimation of characteristics of laminar methanol flames using numerical simulation model is discussed in this article. The study involves multi-component diffusion, variable physical and thermal entities. Interface conditions at the fuel pool surface are introduced with a user-defined function under heterogeneous flames in a cross flow. The results simulated using Ansys are compared with the experimental results reported in the literature. This article presents in detail the flame characteristics in respect of mass burning rate, flow rate, maximum temperature and its location, and species fields.
Keywords:
Methanol,
Short Kinetics Mechanism,
Flame Structure,
Cross Flow,
Mass Burning Rate.
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