Experimental and numerical investigation of methane flame propagation characteristics in a 30.5-m explosion reactor with obstacles
- Organization:
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
- Pages:
- 2
- File Size:
- 681 KB
- Publication Date:
- May 1, 2024
Abstract
Confined explosions are a major risk in underground
coal mine operations. Depending on confinement, ignition
location and obstacles in the flame path, methane explosions
can transition to detonations. This research focuses on explosion
experiments in a reactor with diameter of 71 cm and
length of 30.5 m, along with developing the corresponding
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model that captures the
observed flame behavior. The results show that the 2D and
3D CFD models are able predict the experimental flame front
propagation velocity, but the 3D model shows more explicit
conformity than the 2D model.
Citation
APA: (2024) Experimental and numerical investigation of methane flame propagation characteristics in a 30.5-m explosion reactor with obstacles
MLA: Experimental and numerical investigation of methane flame propagation characteristics in a 30.5-m explosion reactor with obstacles. Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2024.