Energy & Fuels, Vol.31, No.12, 14237-14247, 2017
Experimental Study on the Turbulent Premixed Flame Structural Characteristics Based on the Wavelet Transform
To investigate the effect of the flame inherent instabilities and turbulence on the flame structural characteristics, premixed combustion experiments of 50% H-2/50% CO at a equivalence ratio of 0.6 were conducted in a turbulent combustion bomb in atmospheric temperature and pressure. The correlation degree was defined to study the correlation relation between flame structural characteristics at different moments, and the wavelet transform was used to investigate the detail components at different scales. The results indicate that, with the development of the flame, the cellular structure was enhanced and the correlation degree gradually decreased. The fluctuations of the detail components at the larger scale were stronger and included more energy, which corresponded to the main factor causing the flame front complex. With the turbulence intensity increase, the root mean square amplitude and energy of the detail components increased, leading to the increase of the interaction of different disturbances, while the correlation degree of the flame decreased. The correlation degree of the detail components presented a staggered distribution of higher and lower values, which indicated the complex changes of the disturbances at different scales.