A study of thin-flame quasisteady sphericosymmetric combustion of multicomponent fuel droplets. Part I: modelling for droplet surface regression and non-unity gas-phase Lewis number

Achintya Mukhopadhyay,

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Achintya Mukhopadhyay

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author

Dipankar Sanyal,

Dipankar Sanyal

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India

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Achintya Mukhopadhyay,

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Achintya Mukhopadhyay

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author

Dipankar Sanyal,

Dipankar Sanyal

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India

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First published: 28 September 1999

https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-114X(199909)23:11<963::AID-ER532>3.0.CO;2-7

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A model for sphericosymmetric thin-flame combustion of multicomponent fuel droplets has been developed in the first part of this two-part work. The model incorporates effects of droplet surface regression and gas-phase Lewis number. It is observed that both these effects affect the results substantially. The study also reveals the transient nature of the combustion process. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

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