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Combustion in swirling flows: A review

Nicholas Syred, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1974 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 2, pp 143-201
TLDR
The main effects of swirl are to improve flame stability as a result of the formation of toroidal recirculation zones and to reduce combustion lengths by producing high rates of entrainment of the ambient fluid and fast mixing as discussed by the authors.
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This article is published in Combustion and Flame.The article was published on 1974-10-01. It has received 837 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Combustion chamber & Combustor.

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Investigation of turbulent premixed methane/air and hydrogen-enriched methane/air flames in a laboratory-scale gas turbine model combustor

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of equivalence ratio (Φ), Re, and H2 enrichment on flame structure were examined employing OH-PLIF measurement for CH4/air cases, the flame was stabilized with an M shape.
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Experimental analysis of biomass co-firing flames in a pulverized fuel swirl burner using a CCD based visualization system

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of biomass co-firing in the physical characteristics and oscillation patterns of the flame were analyzed by means of a digital imaging system installed in a 500kWth semi-industrial scale swirl burner.
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The Interaction of the Precessing Vortex Core and Reverse Flow Zone in the Exhaust of a Swirl Burner

TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental processes occurring in swirl burners are described and the phenomenon of the precessing vortex core has been characterized, which is known as precessed vortex core (PVC) phenomenon.
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Soot concentration and primary particle size in swirl-stabilized non-premixed turbulent flames of ethylene and air

TL;DR: In this paper, a gas turbine model combustor with optical access was investigated, and velocity and soot concentration fields were measured for three levels of air flow for a fixed flow rate of ethylene as the fuel.
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Aerodynamic characteristics and thermal structure of nonpremixed reacting swirling wakes at low Reynolds numbers

TL;DR: In this paper, the aerodynamic characteristics and thermal structure of uncontrolled and controlled double-concentric jet flames at low Reynolds numbers were experimentally studied, where the swirl and Reynolds numbers are lower than 0.6 and 2000, respectively.
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Theory of the vortex breakdown phenomenon

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that vortex breakdown is not a manifestation of instability or of any other effect indicated by study of infinitesimal disturbances alone, but instead a finite transition between two dynamically conjugate states of axisymmetric flow, analogous to the hydraulic jump in open-channel flow.
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On stationary and travelling vortex breakdowns

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe some experiments in swirling flows in a diverging cylindrical tube in which various types of vortex breakdowns were observed, viz. mild (double helix) breakdown, spiral breakdown, and axisymmetric breakdown.
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Some observations of the vortex breakdown phenomenon

TL;DR: In this article, a cylindrical vortex, formed in a long tube, was used to study the "vortex breakdown" that has been previously reported in investigations of the flow over slender delta wings.