ON THE THEORY OF TURBULENT FLAME VELOCITY

Abstract

The renormalization ideas of self-similar dynamics of a strongly turbulent flame front are applied to the case of a flame with realistically large thermal expansion of the burning matter. In that case a flame front is corrugated both by external turbulence and the intrinsic flame instability. The analytical formulas for the velocity of flame propagation are obtained. It is demonstrated that the flame instability is of principal importance when the integral turbulent length scale is much larger than the cutoff wavelength of the instability. The developed theory is used to analyze recent experiments on turbulent flames propagating in tubes.

Keywords:

• Darrieus-Landau flame instability
• premixed turbulent flame
• renormalization

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and by the Kempe Foundation.