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A standard burner for confined swirling natural gas flames is presented which was developed within the German TECFLAM cooperation. The aims of the TECFLAM research program are the establishment of an extensive experimental database from selective flames and the validation and improvement of mathematical combustion models. In this paper, results from joint PDF measurements of temperature, mixture fraction, and major species concentrations in a turbulent diffusion flame with 150 kW thermal load, equivalence ratio 0.833, and swirl number 0.9 are presented. Major aspects of the investigation are the general quantitative characterization of the flame and the study of the thermochemical state, e.g. effects of turbulence–chemistry interactions. Scatterplots of temperature, CH4, and CO mole fractions as well as mean mixture fraction and temperature fields are presented and discussed. Furthermore, CFD calculations have been performed using the code Fluent 5 as an example of a commercially available code that is frequently used for technical applications. The comparison between the calculated and measured results reveals some significant deviations which are discussed with respect to the applicability of this code to swirling turbulent flames.
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Received: 19 April 2000 / Revised version: 15 June 2000 / Published online: 5 October 2000
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Meier, W., Keck, O., Noll, B. et al. Investigations in the TECFLAM swirling diffusion flame: Laser Raman measurements and CFD calculations. Appl Phys B 71, 725–731 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000436
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000436