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Scaling behavior of burning rate constant with initial droplet diameter is investigated for a single component, sooting fuel under going spherically symmetric combustion in microgravity. Three different regions were identified: the D2-law region where the burning rate constant is independent of initial droplet size, the sooting region, and the non-luminous radiative loss region. In the last two regions the burning rate constant is shown to decrease as D0 -1/4 where D0 is the initial droplet size. This decrease is primarily due to temperature dependent property variation. An estimate for the critical diameter that divides the first two regions is developed using a semi-empirical formulation for sooting.
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Nayagam, V., Marchese, A.J., Sacksteder, K.R. (2008). Microgravity Droplet Combustion: An Inverse Scale Modeling Problem. In: Saito, K. (eds) Progress in Scale Modeling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8682-3_13
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