On flame extinction by a spatially periodic shear flow

Author: Kagan L  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 1364-7830

Source: Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol.2, Iss.4, 1998-04, pp. : 399-404

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Abstract

It is shown that the adiabatic high Lewis number premixed gas flame spreading through a large-scale zero-mean time-independent periodic shear flow constitutes a bistable system with a hysteretic transition between stable propagation modes. A mildly non-adiabatic flame may be quenched provided the flow-field intensity exceeds a certain critical value. The study is motivated by the experimentally known phenomenon of flame extinction by turbulence.