Fractal Dimension Growth in Flame Front Wrinkles during the Early Phase of Flame Propagation in an SI Engine Ritsumeikan University

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Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Suzuki, Kunihiko, author.

Conference Name:

2003 JSAE/SAE International Spring Fuels and Lubricants Meeting (2003-05-19 : Yokohama, Japan)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2003

Summary:

Turbulent premixed flame fronts during the early phase of flame propagation were visualized by a laser-light sheet technique in an optically accessible spark ignition engine. Time-resolved continuous images of wrinkling flame fronts were captured by a high-speed video camera until roughly 20% of total fuel was consumed. The image data were processed to measure the fractal dimension D2 in a time series for each cycle. The results show that the fractal dimension D2 is close to unity just after the spark ignition and then increases with time as the flame propagates. It is also shown that the fractal dimension increases more quickly as engine speed increases. The temporal rate of increase in the fractal dimension, ΔD2/Δt, was obtained from the D2 data and the relationship between ΔD2/Δt and D2 was examined. The result reveals that the higher D2 is, the lower ΔD2/Δt becomes from a positive value to a minus value, crossing zero when D2 reaches a critical value D2C. The following empirical equation was derived from the average of the relationships over many cycles: dD2/dt = -{D2 - D2C}/τ (τ : time constant). The critical fractal dimension D2C and the time constant τ were correlated with unburned mixture turbulence intensities, which were measured by a cross-correlation PIV technique. Compared with other combustion models, the present model produced a reasonable result

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2003-01-1840

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