A radical index for the determination of the chemical kinetic contribution to diffusion flame extinction of large hydrocarbon fuels

The extinction limits of diffusion flames have been measured experimentally and computed numerically for fuels of three different molecular structures pertinent to surrogate fuel formulation: n-alkanes, alkyl benzenes, and iso-octane. The focus of this study is to isolate the thermal and mass transport effects from chemical kinetic contributions to diffusion flame extinction, allowing for a universal correlation of extinction limit to molecular...