Numerical Study of Multi-Fuel Jet Inverse Diffusion Flame

Nadjib. Ghiti^1, , Abed Alhalim. Bentebbiche¹ and Samir. Hanchi²

¹Laboratoire de Mécanique Avancée-LMA,USTHB, Elia, Bab-Ezzouar, Alger, Algeria

²Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, EMP, Bordj El Bahri, Alger, Algeria

Cite this paper:
Nadjib. Ghiti, Abed Alhalim. Bentebbiche and Samir. Hanchi. Numerical Study of Multi-Fuel Jet Inverse Diffusion Flame. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2013; 1(4):76-81. doi: 10.12691/ajme-1-4-1

Abstract

A numerical simulation was performed to investigate a multi-jet inverse methane diffusion flame. The numerical simulation was established by the commercial CFD code Fluent for an air jet surrounding by four fuel jets. Using a Pre PDF technique to estimate the interaction between the chemistry and turbulent flow. The simulation results show a better data of the flame temperature field characteristics and the CO, CO₂, NO H₂O, CH₄, O₂ concentrations. The influence of the velocity of the fuel and air jet on the NO production is appearing very clear.

Keywords:
methane turbulent diffusion flame fluent burner

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