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Forcing of a flame by a periodic flow in a Hele-Shaw burner

Basile Radisson, Bruno Denet, and Christophe Almarcha

  • Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, IRPHE UMR 7342, 13384 Marseille, France

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 053201 – Published 10 May, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.053201

Abstract

The parametric forcing of premixed flames is observed here in the geometry of a Hele-Shaw burner. Using a vibroacoustic coupling, we are able to study the thresholds of the parametric flattening (where the flame wrinkles are suppressed) and the parametric instability (where the flame wrinkles oscillate at twice the acoustic period) and compare the measured values to a low-frequency theory. It is shown that the dependency of the parametric threshold with equivalence ratio is lower than predicted, suggesting that the Markstein lengths are frequency dependent and that the flattening threshold is independent of the Markstein number and of the nondimensional forcing frequency, in agreement with the Bychkov limit.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 053201– Published 10 May, 2022
  • Received 21 June 2021
  • Accepted 2 March 2022
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