Article Dans Une Revue Sci Année : 2025

Risk of Flame Acceleration Due to Accumulation of Unburnt Volatiles in Zero-Gravity Condition

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This paper investigates the influence of ventilation conditions, including oxidizer flow speed and oxygen concentration, on major species composition in favor of estimating a risk of flame acceleration at reduced gravity. A two-step chemical reaction for gas phase and a soot formation model based on laminar smoke point are used. To calculate thermal radiation from flame, a discrete-ordinates method is coupled with a non-grey model by taking into account the radiative properties of CO, CO2, H2O and soot. The predictions provide further insights into the intimate coupling of fuel types, such as heptane and dodecane, with burning rate, flame structure and toxic emissions as a consequence of changes in ventilation conditions such as oxidizer flow velocity and oxygen concentration. From a boundary-layer microgravity flame, the CO2 to CO ratio is less than 3, and the unburnt hydrocarbons CmHn to CO ratio is less than 2, with a concentration of unburnt fuel that exceeds the Lower Flammability Limit. This finding on the production of unburnt species is contrasted to the case of a buoyancy-controlled flame at Earth gravity.

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hal-05148669 , version 1 (07-07-2025)

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Huiying Wang, Némo Decamps. Risk of Flame Acceleration Due to Accumulation of Unburnt Volatiles in Zero-Gravity Condition. Sci, 2025, 7 (2), pp.75. ⟨10.3390/sci7020075⟩. ⟨hal-05148669⟩
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