Accession Number:

ADA017543

Title:

Moderate Burning of a Liquid Fuel Drop.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

CORNELL UNIV ITHACA N Y DEPT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS

Personal Author(s):

• Buckmaster,John D.

Report Date:

1974-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

29.0

Abstract:

The burning of a spherical fuel drop immersed in an oxidizer is considered in the limit of infinite activation energy. For certain values of the various parameters a rational flame-sheet theory is constructed and explicit formulae are deduced for all the quantities that characterize the burning. All the solutions correspond to mode-rate burning for which the vaporization rate is a decreasing function of Damkohler number. Author

Descriptors:

• *Fuels
• *Combustion
• *Oxidizers
• *Autoignition
• *Vaporization
• Drops
• Temperature
• Heat of combustion
• Chemical equilibrium
• Burning rate
• Perturbations
• Irreversible processes
• Pressure
• Flames
• Diffusion

Subject Categories:

• Miscellaneous Materials
• Combustion and Ignition
• Fuels

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE