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Michael A. Liberman

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arXiv2021

Early Stages of Flame Propagation in Tubes with No-slip Walls and the Mechanism of Tulip Flame Formation

The early stages of flames propagation in tubes with no-slip walls and the inversion of the flame front from a convex shape directed towards unburned gas to a concave shape with a cusp directed to the burned gas, known as a tulip flame, was investigated for closed and half-open tubes by solving the fully compressible reactive Navier-Stokes equations with a one-step Arrhenius chemical model for the highly reactive hydrogen/air and slowly reacting methane/air mixtures. The development of the tulip flame in hydrogen/air obtained in simulations with a one-step Arrhenius model was compared with simulations using a detailed chemical model. It is shown that the inversion of the flame front and the onset of the tulip flame occurs due to rarefaction waves generated by the decelerating flame when its surface was reduced due to extinguishing of the rear parts of the flame skirt at the sidewalls. The rarefaction waves reduce the flow velocity ahead of the flame, creating an uneven velocity profile, which facilitate the flame front inversion. In the case of a flame propagating in a tube with both ends closed, the compression wave reflected from the tube end opposite to the ignition end, also contribute to the inversion of the flame front. In the case of fast flames and a relatively short tube with both closed ends, the rarefaction waves may invert the flow velocities in the unburned gas towards the propagating flame. The tulip flame formation mechanism is a purely gas-dynamic phenomenon not associated with flame instabilities or vortex motion, in agreement with the conclusion obtained in recent experimental studies [1].

physics.flu-dyn↗

arXiv2015

Effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting and gyrotropy in two-dimensional cavity polaritons under the influence of the Landau quantization

GaAs-type quantum wells (QWs) with p-type valence band embedded into the resonators. The Landau quantization of the electrons and heavy-holes (hh) was investigated taking into account the Rashba spin-orbit coupling with third-order chirality terms for hh and with nonparabolicity terms in their dispersion low including the Zeeman splitting (ZS) effects. The exact solutions for the eigenfunctions and eigenenergies were obtained using the Rashba method [1]. We derive in the second quantization representation the Hamiltonians describing the Coulomb electron-electron and the electron-radiation interactions and determine the magnetoexciton energy branches and the magnetoexciton-photon interaction. The fifth order dispersion equation describing the energy spectrum of the cavity magnetoexciton-polariton is investigated. It takes into account the interaction of the cavity photons with two dipole-active and with two quadrupole-active 2D magnetoexciton energy branches. The cavity photons have the circular polarizations oriented along their wave vectors, which has the quantized longitudinal component. The selection rules of the exciton-photon interaction is expressed through the scalar products of the two-types circular polarizations and it is related with the numbers of the LQ levels of electrons and heavy-holes. It is shown that the Rabi frequency of the polariton branches and the magnetoexciton oscillator strength increase in dependence on the magnetic field strength. The optical gyrotropy effects may be revealed if changing the sign of the photon circular polarization at a given sign of the wave vector longitudinal projection or equivalently changing the sign of the longitudinal projection at the same selected light circular polarization.

cond-mat.quant-gas↗

arXiv2013

Mechanisms of Ignition by Transient Energy Deposition: Regimes of Combustion Waves Propagation

Regimes of chemical reaction wave propagating in reactive gaseous mixtures, whose chemistry is governed by chain-branching kinetics, are studied depending on the characteristics of a transient thermal energy deposition localized in a finite volume of reactive gas. Different regimes of the reaction wave propagation are initiated depending on the amount of deposited thermal energy, power of the source and the size of the hot spot. The main parameters which define regimes of the combustion waves facilitated by the transient deposition of thermal energy are: acoustic timescale, duration of the energy deposition, ignition time scale and size of the hot spot. The interplay between these parameters specifies the role of gasdynamical processes, the formation and steepness of the temperature gradient and speed of the spontaneous wave. The obtained results show how ignition of one or another regime of combustion wave depends on the value of energy, rate of the energy deposition and size of the hot spot, which is important for the practical use and for risk assessment.

physics.chem-ph↗

arXiv2004

Clustering of inertial particles in a turbulent flow

We analyzed formation of small-scale inhomogeneities of particle spatial distribution (particle clustering) in a turbulent flow. The particle clustering is a consequence of a spontaneous breakdown of their homogeneous space distribution, and is caused by a combined effect of the particle inertia and a finite correlation time of the turbulent velocity field. Theory of the particle clustering is extended to the case when the particle Stokes time is larger than the Kolmogorov time scale, but is much smaller than the correlation time at the integral scale of turbulence. The criterion of the clustering instability is obtained. Applications of the analyzed effects to the dynamics of inertial particles in industrial turbulent flows are discussed.

nlin.CD↗

arXiv2001

Nonlinear Theory of Flame Front Instability

Nonlinear non-stationary equation describing evolution of weakly curved premixed flames with arbitrary gas expansion, subject to the Landau-Darrieus instability, is derived. The new equation respects all the conservation laws to be satisfied across the flame front, as well as correctly takes into account influence of vorticity, generated in the flame, on the flame front structure and flame velocity. Analytical solutions of the derived equation are found.

physics.flu-dyn↗

arXiv2001

Nonlinear equation for curved stationary flames

A nonlinear equation describing curved stationary flames with arbitrary gas expansion $θ= ρ_{\rm fuel}/ρ_{\rm burnt}$, subject to the Landau-Darrieus instability, is obtained in a closed form without an assumption of weak nonlinearity. It is proved that in the scope of the asymptotic expansion for $θ\to 1,$ the new equation gives the true solution to the problem of stationary flame propagation with the accuracy of the sixth order in $θ- 1.$ In particular, it reproduces the stationary version of the well-known Sivashinsky equation at the second order corresponding to the approximation of zero vorticity production. At higher orders, the new equation describes influence of the vorticity drift behind the flame front on the front structure. Its asymptotic expansion is carried out explicitly, and the resulting equation is solved analytically at the third order. For arbitrary values of $θ,$ the highly nonlinear regime of fast flow burning is investigated, for which case a large flame velocity expansion of the nonlinear equation is proposed.

physics.flu-dyn↗