Measuring laminar burning velocities using constant volume combustion vessel techniques

Thesis

The laminar burning velocity is an important fundamental property of a fuel-air mixture at given conditions of temperature and pressure. Knowledge of burning velocities is required as an input for combustion models, including engine simulations, and the validation of chemical kinetic mechanisms. It is also important to understand the effect of stretch upon laminar flames, to correct for stretch and determine true (unstretched) laminar burning velocities, but also for modelling combustion w...

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Authors: Hinton, N

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: premixed flames; Combustion; burning velocity; flame speed; biogas; flame stretch; hydrous ethanol; fuels
• Subjects: Combustion; Engineering & allied sciences