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Thermal-ignition analysis in boundary-layer flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

C. K. Law  and
H. K. Law
C. K. Law
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Astronautical Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
H. K. Law
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Astronautical Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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Abstract

The weakly reactive state leading to the ignition of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow of a combustible mixture over a hot, isothermal, non-permeable, non-catalytic flat plate is studied both numerically and using matched asymptotic analysis in the realistic limit of large activation energy. It is shown that the flow consists of a locally similar diffusive-reactive region next to the plate and a non-similar diffusive-convective region outside it; that the analytic solution obtained reproduces the lower half of the S-shaped ignition-extinction response curve such that ignition is expected to occur when a suitably defined Damköhler number, which increases with the streamwise distance, reaches unity; and that at the point of ignition the heat transfer from the wall vanishes identically. An explicit expression for the minimum distance for ignition to occur is also derived.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , 15 May 1979 , pp. 97 - 108
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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