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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the Combustion Institute Année : 2019

Leading point behavior during the ignition of an annular combustor with liquid n-heptane injectors

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Experimental and numerical investigations of ignition in combustors with multiple burners have recently emerged and have provided new insights on the last phase of ignition in gas turbine-like annular geometries where the flame propagates from burner to burner. Previous comparisons between calculations and experiments of light-round in a laboratory scale annular combustion chamber have demonstrated the ability of large-eddy simulation to predict such processes for perfectly premixed conditions and, more recently, for n-heptane spray injection. The present analysis focuses on two additional operating points with liquid n-heptane sprays and the turbulent flame propagation in the two-phase mixture is examined through the behavior of its leading points. The validation of the light-round process is characterized in terms of ignition delays. The detailed analysis of the propagation through the definition of a leading point enables to highlight some key phenomena responsible for the flame behavior, such as the influence of the liquid droplet spray and its vaporization in the chamber. Calculations indicate that the volumetric expansion due to the chemical reaction at the flame induces a strong azimuthal flow in the fresh stream at a distance of several sectors ahead of the flame, which modifies conditions in this region. This creates heterogeneities in the gas composition and wakes on the downstream side of the swirling jets formed by the injectors, with notable effects on the motion of the leading point and on the absolute flame velocity.
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hal-03484499 , version 1 (20-12-2021)

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Théa Lancien, Kevin Prieur, Daniel Durox, Sébastien Candel, Ronan Vicquelin. Leading point behavior during the ignition of an annular combustor with liquid n-heptane injectors. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019, 37, pp.5021 - 5029. ⟨10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.160⟩. ⟨hal-03484499⟩
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