Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms for Premixed Hydrogen Flames

Abstract

There have been a number of studies of structures and propagation velocities of premixed hydrogen-oxygen flames through numerical integrations of one-dimensional, adiabatic conservation equations. Especially notable among these are the very extensive and pioneering works of Dixon-Lewis [3.1], [3.2] and the more recent thorough studies of Warnatz [3.3]–[3.5]. These references should be consulted for additional literature on the subject. These cited works accomplished more than merely the computation of flame structures. They helped to improve knowledge of rates of important elementary steps and also identified accuracies of various steady-state and partial-equilibrium approximations throughout the flames. Moreover, they reviewed and evaluated available experimental results sufficiently thoroughly, so that in the present study it will be adequate to focus attention on theoretical and numerical comparisons with the more recent experimental data presented in Chap. 2