Group Combustion

This page shows overall information of Group Combustion including lists of investigators, sample material, related publication, and references of data, experiment cell, and facility. Click here to check the parameter index of the experiment and get related data.

Overview
title Elucidation of Flame Spread and Group Combustion Excitation Mechanism of Randomly-distributed Droplet Clouds
category Combustion
type ISS Experiment
facility Chamber for Combustion Experiment
cell Group Combustion Experiment Module
start date (GMT) 2017-02-16 (47)
end date (GMT) 2017-07-04 (185)
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Investigators
function name organization
PI Masato MIKAMI Yamaguchi University
CI Hiroshi NOMURA Nihon University
CI Osamu MORIUE Kyushu University
CI Akira UMEMURA Nagoya University
CI Takehiko SEO Yamaguchi University
CI Yusuke SUGANUMA Nihon University
CI Masao KIKUCHI Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
CI Daniel L. Dietrich National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sample (fuel)
material liquid n-decane C10H22
Related Publication
[1] Nomura, H., Suganuma, Y., Setani, A., Takahashi, M., Mikami, M., Hara, H., “Microgravity experiments on droplet motion during flame spreading along three-fuel-droplet array”, Proceedings of The Combustion Institute, 32, pp. 2163–2169 (2009-1) DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.121
[2] Mikami, M., Mizuta, Y., Tsuchida, Y, Kojima, N., “Flame Structure and Stabilization of Lean-premixed Sprays in a Counterflow with Low-volatility Fuel”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 32, pp. 2223–2230 (2009-1) DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2008.08.009
[3] Oyagi, H., Shigeno, H., Mikami, M., Kojima, N., “Flame-spread Probability and Local Interactive Effects in Randomly Arranged Fuel-droplet Arrays in Microgravity”, Combustion and Flame, 56 (4), pp. 763–770 (2019-4) DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2008.12.013
[4] Seo, T., Azakami, D., Tsuchida, Y., Mikami, M., “A Numerical Study on Flame Spread Characteristics of Two-dimensional Droplet Cloud”, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems-Asia, pp. 302–306 (2010-10)
[5] Nomura, H., Iwasaki, H., Suganuma, Y., Mikami, M., Kikuchi, M., “Microgravity experiments of flame spreading along a fuel droplet array in fuel vapor-air mixture”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 33 (2), pp. 2013–2020 (2011-1) DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2010.06.130
[6] Nomura, H., Takahashi, H., Suganuma, Y., Kikuchi, M., “Droplet ignition behavior in the vicinity of the leading edge of a flame spreading along a fuel droplet array in fuel-vapor/air mixture”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 34, pp. 1593–1600 (2013-1) DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2012.05.049
[7] Suto, K., Nomura, H., Mikami, M., Kikuchi, M., “Experiments on Flame Spread along a n-Decane Droplet Array with Two Droplets Movable in the Array Direction”, Proceedings of ISTS2013, (2013-6) DOI: 10.1299/jsmeb.41.322
[8] Saputro, H., Seo, T., Mikami, M., “Study of Flame Spread Behaviour in Large-scale 2-D Droplet Clouds Without Interactive Effect Using Percolation Approach”, Proceedings of 24th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, (2013-11)
[9] Mikami, M., Sano, N., Saputro, H., Watari, H., Seo, T., “Microgravity Experiment of Flame Spread over Droplets at Low Pressure”, International Journal of Microgravity Science and Application, 31 (4), pp. 172–178 (2014-10) Download (in Japanese)
[10] Kikuchi, M., Kan, Y., Tazaki, A., Yamamoto, S., Nokura, M., Hanafusa, N., Hisashi, Y.,, Moriue, O, Nomura, H., Mikami, M., “Current Status on Preparation of Fuel Droplet Clouds Combustion Experiment “Group Combustion” Onboard the KIBO”, Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan, 12 (ists29), pp. Th_25–Th_30 (2014-10) DOI: 10.2322/tastj.12.Th_25
[11] Saputro, H., Seo, T., Mikami, M., “Simulating flame-spread behavior in large scale of droplet clouds with considering two-droplet interaction”, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems-Asia, ILASS-Asia2014-058, (2014-11)
[12] Sano, N., Motomatsu, N., Saputro, H., Seo, T., Mikami, M., “Flame-spread characteristics of n-decane droplet arrays at different ambient pressures in microgravity”, International Journal of Microgravity Science and Application, 33 (1), pp. 330108-1–330108-5 (2016-1) DOI: 10.15011/ijmsa.33.330108
[13] Mikami, M., Watari, H., Hirose, T., Seo, T., Saputro, H., Moriue, O., Kikuchi, M., “Flame spread of droplet-cloud elements with two-droplet interaction in microgravity”, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 12, pp. 1–10 (2017-9) DOI: 10.1299/jtst.2017jtst0028
[14] Saputro, H., Fitriana, L., Mikami, M., Seo, T., “Group Combustion Excitation in Randomly Distributed Droplet Clouds Based on Flame-spread Characteristics with Two-droplet Interaction in Microgravity”, Proceedings of 23rd Small Engine Technology Conference, JSAE 20179077/SAE 2017-32-0077, (2017-11)
[15] Suganuma, Y., Kitta, S., Nomura, H., Ujiie, Y., “Effects of ambient pressure on flame spread speed along a fuel droplet array at microgravity”, Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (in Japanese), 183 (855), p.17-00352 (2017-11) DOI: 10.1299/transjsme.17-00352
[16] Yoshida, Y, Sano, N., Seo, T., Mikami, M., Moriue, O., Kan, Y., Kikuchi, M., “Analysis of Local Flame-Spread Characteristics of an Unevenly Arranged Droplet Cloud in Microgravity”, International Journal of Microgravity Science and Application, 35 (2), p.350203 (2018-4) DOI: 10.15011//jasma.35.350203
[17] Mikami, M., Nomura, H., Suganuma, Y., Kikuchi, M., Suzuki, T., Nokura, M., “Generation of a Large-Scale n-Decane-Droplet Cloud Considering Droplet Pre-Vaporization in “Group Combustion&rdquo Experiments aboard Kibo/ISS”, International Journal of Microgravity Science and Application, 35 (2), p.350202 (2018-4) DOI: 10.15011//jasma.35.350202
[18] Mikami, M., Motomatsu, N., Nagata, K., Yoshida, Y, Seo, T., “Flame spread between two droplets of different diameter in microgravity”, Combustion and Flame, 193, pp. 76–82 (2018-7) DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.03.004
[19] Mikami, M., Saputro, H., Seo, T., Oyagi, H., “Flame Spread and Group-Combustion Excitation in Randomly Distributed Droplet Clouds with Low-Volatility Fuel near the Excitation Limit: a Percolation Approach Based on Flame-Spread Characteristics in Microgravity”, Microgravity Science and Technology, 30, pp. 419–433 (2018-8) DOI: 10.1007/s12217-018-9603-z
[20] Mikami, M., Yoshida, Y., Seo, T., Sakashita, T., Kikuchi, M., Suzuki, T., Nokura, M., “Space-Based Microgravity Experiments on Flame Spread over Randomly Distributed n-Decane-Droplet Clouds: Overall Flame-Spread Characteristics”, Microgravity Science and Technology, 30, pp. 535–542 (2018-8) DOI: 10.1007/s12217-018-9637-2
[21] Iwai, K., Yoshida, Y., Motomatsu, N., Seo, T., Mikami, M., “Flame-spread characteristics of droplet-cloud element with two-droplet interaction at high pressure in microgravity”, Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aerospace Technology Japan, 16 (6), pp. 494–499 (2018-9) DOI: 10.2322/tastj.16.494
[22] Uneyama, R., Iwai, K., Nagata, K., Yoshida, Y., Seo, T., Mikami, M., “A Study of Flame Spread of n-Decane Droplet Arrays with Fuel-vapor Jet at High Pressures in Microgravity”, Proceedings of The 7th Joint Conference on Renewable Energy and Nanotechnology, EL08, (2018-12)
[23] Yoshida, Y, Iwai, K., Nagata, K., Seo, T., Mikami, M., Moriue, O., Sakashita, T., Kikuchi, M., Suzuki, T., Nokura, M., “Flame-spread limit from interactive burning droplets in microgravity”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37, (2019-1) DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.07.106
References
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gc_experiment_overview.pdf (196KB) Overview of Group Combustion Experiment.
gc_parameter.pdf (409KB) Experiment parameter list of Group Combustion Experiment.
gc_droplet_pattern.pdf (20,622KB) Droplet pattern of Group Combustion Experiment.
gcem_observation_schema.pdf (124KB) Schema, Group Combustion Experiment Modlue observation area.
gcem_measurement_data_format.pdf (20KB) Measurement data format of Group Combustion Experiment Module.