Comptes Rendus
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Soot and radiation modeling in laminar ethylene flames with tabulated detailed chemistry
Luc-Henry Dorey1  ; Nicolas Bertier1  ; Lionel Tessé1  ; Francis Dupoirieux2
1 Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, 29, avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92322 Châtillon cedex, France
2 Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, 91761 Palaiseau cedex, France
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 339 (2011) no. 12, pp. 756-769.

A strategy has been developed in order to compute unsteady convective and radiative heat transfers in an industrial combustion device. This strategy involves a tabulation method to describe gas-phase chemistry, coupled with a semi-empirical soot model. A Monte Carlo method is used to evaluate gas and soot radiative transfer. This paper presents the first validation step of this strategy, in which four laminar premixed ethylene flames have been simulated. The tabulation method well predicts gas-phase species concentrations, including acetylene, considered as the main soot precursor. The soot model gives results in the experimental uncertainty range of measurements, whereas radiative powers highlight the dominating role of soot particles.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crme.2011.09.004
Mots clés : Combustion, Soot modeling, Radiative transfer modeling, Sooting flames, Tabulated chemistry
Luc-Henry Dorey 1 ; Nicolas Bertier 1 ; Lionel Tessé 1 ; Francis Dupoirieux 2

1 Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, 29, avenue de la Division Leclerc, 92322 Châtillon cedex, France
2 Onera – The French Aerospace Lab, 91761 Palaiseau cedex, France 
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Luc-Henry Dorey; Nicolas Bertier; Lionel Tessé; Francis Dupoirieux. Soot and radiation modeling in laminar ethylene flames with tabulated detailed chemistry. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 339 (2011) no. 12, pp. 756-769. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2011.09.004. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2011.09.004/

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