TOWARD GENERALIZATION OF CALCULATIONS
OF THE STATIONARY VELOCITY OF DIFFUSION
FLAME PROPAGATION OVER THE SURFACE
OF A FUEL

A. I. Karpov,a A. A. Galat,a 
and V. K. Bulgakovb

UDC 536.46:536.75

The results of numerical investigations of the laws governing 
the spreading of a two-dimensional diffusion flame over thermally 
thin layers of a cellulose material using the algorithm of calculation 
of stationary velocity of flame propagation, which is based on the 
principle of minimum entropy production, are presented. The obtained 
dependences of the velocity of flame propagation on thermophysical 
parameters (thickness of the fuel, oxygen concentration and pressure 
of the ambient, velocity of the blowing flow) agree quantitatively 
with the well-known experimental data.

aInstitute of Applied Mechanics, Ural Branch 
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 34 Baramzina Str., 
Izhevsk, 426067, Russia; email: karpov@udman.ru; 
bPacific Ocean State University, 136 Tikhookeanskaya Str., 
Khabarovsk, 680035, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 103-111, May-June, 2007. Original 
article submitted October 13, 2005.