Measurements of laminar burning velocities and onset of cellular instabilities of methane-hydrogen-air flames at elevated pressures and temperatures

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5574-5584

  Hu, Erjiang ^a   Huang, Zuohua ^a   He, Jiajia ^a   Zheng, Jianjun ^a   Miao, Haiyan ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elevated pressures and temperatures; Hydrogen; Laminar burning velocity; Methane; Onset of cellular instability

Indexed keywords

AIR FLAMES; CELLULAR INSTABILITIES; CONSTANT-VOLUME COMBUSTION VESSELS; CRITICAL RADIUS; ELEVATED PRESSURE; ELEVATED PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLAME INSTABILITY; FLAME PROPAGATION SPEED; HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES; HYDROGEN ADDITION; INITIAL PRESSURE; LAMINAR BURNING VELOCITY; MARKSTEIN LENGTHS; ONSET OF CELLULAR INSTABILITY; PREMIXED;

COMBUSTION; EXPLOSIVES; FLAMMABILITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; METHANE; STABILITY; VELOCITY;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 67649625782     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.04.058     Document Type: Article

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