Authors: F Liu M Yang FA Hill DR Snelling GJ Smallwood
Publish Date: 2006/04/08
Volume: 83, Issue: 3, Pages: 383-
Abstract
An improved aggregatebased lowfluence laserinduced incandescence LII model has been developed The shielding effect in heat conduction between aggregated soot particles and the surrounding gas was modeled using the concept of the equivalent heat transfer sphere The diameter of such an equivalent sphere was determined from direct simulation Monte Carlo calculations in the free molecular regime as functions of the aggregate size and the thermal accommodation coefficient of soot Both the primary soot particle diameter and the aggregate size distributions are assumed to be lognormal The effective temperature of a soot particle ensemble containing different primary particle diameters and aggregate sizes in the laser probe volume was calculated based on the ratio of the total thermal radiation intensities of soot particles at 400 and 780 nm to simulate the experimentally measured soot particle temperature using twocolor optical pyrometry The effect of primary particle diameter polydispersity is in general important and should be considered The effect of aggregate size polydispersity is relatively unimportant when the heat conduction between the primary particles and the surrounding gas takes place in the freemolecular regime however it starts to become important when the heat conduction process occurs in the near transition regime The model developed in this study was also applied to the redetermination of the thermal accommodation coefficient of soot in an atmospheric pressure laminar ethylene diffusion flame
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