This research involves theoretical studies of the chemical and fluid mechanical phenomena which make turbulent combustion in high-speed flows different from such combustion in low-speed flows. Finite-rate chemistry plays a significant role in high-speed flows because of the small ratios of flow times to chemical times. The studies address ignition and extinction phenomena in nonpremixed turbulent combustion of hydrogen-air systems by both numerical and asymptotic methods. Attention also is paid to effects of compressibility in high-speed turbulent combustion, with consideration given to interdispersal configurations of shocklets and flamelets. Efforts are made to provide a firmer foundation for the modeling of high-speed turbulent reacting flows, to aid in the development of a formulation which gives results that can be compared with experiments, on turbulent combustion ... Turbulent flames, Diffusion flames, Supersonic combustion.

Since Damkohler and Reynolds numbers over the range of conditions relevant to supersonic hydrogen-air combustion were found to be consistent with the combustion occurring in the reaction-sheet regime, detailed numerical integrations were performed on the structures of counterflow hydrogen-air diffusion flames, for pressure from 0.5 to 10 atm and air temperatures from 300 K to 1200 K, at a hydrogen temperature of 300 K. The results showed extinction to occur at high enough rates of strain in most cases, but no extinction for air temperatures above 1000 K. Nitrogen chemistry was shown to have a negligible effect, and reduced chemical-kinetic mechanisms were developed for simplifying the computations. The compound extinction strain rates were found to be in excellent agreement with newly performed experiments. Compressibility effects are being taken into account, and the results are being worked into methods for describing turbulent combustion in high-speed flows.

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