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Numerical Simulation of the Ignition of a Fuel Mixture by a Distributed Subcritical Streamer Discharge and its Burning in a Channel

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A numerical simulation of the ignition of a fuel (propane–air) mixture in a combustion chamber by a subcritical streamer discharge, initiated at the wall of the working channel of this chamber in the electric field with a strength lower than the breakdown one, on the basis of the gas dynamics equation defining the propagation of the combustion products in such a channel, the equation for the chemical kinetics of burning of a gas mixture in it, and the relation defining the formation and development of a streamer discharge in this mixture has been performed for different values of the initial pressure in the channel, the excess of the propane in the gas mixture, and the number of streamer-discharge initiators in the channel. The results of the numerical calculations were compared with the available results of the corresponding physical experiment and experiment on the ignition of an analogous gas mixture by a multipoint spark discharge.

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  1. D. F. Ustinov Baltic State Technical University “VOENMEKH”, 1 1st Krasnoarmeiskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 190005, Russia

    P. V. Bulat, K. N. Volkov, N. V. Prodan & P. S. Chernyshov

  2. Moscow Radio Engineering Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 132 Varshavskoe Highway, Moscow, 117519, Russia

    L. P. Grachev, I. I. Esakov & P. B. Lavrov

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 96, No. 5, pp. 1160–1169, September–October, 2023.

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Bulat, P.V., Volkov, K.N., Grachev, L.P. et al. Numerical Simulation of the Ignition of a Fuel Mixture by a Distributed Subcritical Streamer Discharge and its Burning in a Channel. J Eng Phys Thermophy 96, 1152–1161 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-023-02780-3

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