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Turbulent shear flow mixing and rapid chemical reactions: an analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Chung-Hua Lin  and
Edward E. O'Brien
Chung-Hua Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11790
Edward E. O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11790
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Abstract

Two-species, irreversible, very rapid reactions, with mild heat release, in a turbulent shear flow are shown to be analogous to the transport of two non-reacting species by the same shear field. Expressions for the probability density functions of the reacting species, the product species and the reaction-generated thermal field are obtained in terms of the joint probability density functions of the two nonreacting species. As an example we have constructed, from recent measurements of temperature statistics at a cross-section in a heated jet, the meanand fluctuating concentration fields of the reacting species and the mean concentration of the product.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , 3 June 1974 , pp. 195 - 206
Copyright
© 1974 Cambridge University Press

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