Diagnostics and Modeling of Stagnation Flames for the Validation of Thermochemical Combustion Models for NO_x Predictions

This article presents a combined experimental and modeling approach for the study of NO formation in premixed stagnation flames. In the experiments, one-dimensional (1-D) Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), 1-D spectrally resolved Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF), and 1-D NO-LIF thermometry are used to measure high resolution profiles, which are directly compared to numerical simulations. The simulations are performed with Cantera using...