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A hot-wire concentration probe with a spatial resolution of 0.13 mm is used to measure concentration in a model cylindrical combustor. The flow inside the combustor is simulated by injecting a helium jet into a cylindrical confinement with or without swirling air flow present. Mean concentrations are essentially zero outside of the jet region, indicating complete confinement of the scalar field by the swirling flow. Consequently, concentration fluctuations are found to be relatively weak compared to velocity fluctuations, and are maximum off-axis at a point which corresponds to the interface between helium and air flows. However, in the absence of a swirling air flow, the helium diffuses quickly to fill the combustor. The resulting helium concentrations are constant and do not resemble the jet-like behavior of the velocity field.
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A version of this paper was presented at the ASME Winter Annual Meeting of 1984 and printed in AMD, Vol. 66
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Ahmed, S.A., So, R.M.C. Concentration distributions in a model combustor. Experiments in Fluids 4, 107–113 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266567
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266567