[Stoves] Rapid mixing-premixing trial

[alex english]

Paul,


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> If there is a spectrum of TLUD operations (and I agree that there probably
> is), then we should be able to identify a few other points in the spectrum
> and (I hope) identify what allows the blue flame and what does not.
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Except the premixing is cause of the blue flame,  orange sparks aside. The
variable gas characteristics along the spectrum may make it difficult to
have blue flame consistency at a range of power levels.


> Examples that are at the blue-flame end are more interesting and fewer
> than the more standard TLUD operations with the yellow flames.
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> What could you do with your set-up to illustrate better that spectrum and
> especially for replication of the blue flame results.
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Perhaps a few inserts which adjust the mixing zone diameter and length
yeild results. In this way I may stumble upon more information, but
understanding this completely, with numbers, and then its practical
application  is probably up to someone else.


> About the mixing pattern of the blue flame, I thought of "upwelling" (or
> sort of like the "rolling of water and clothes in an upright washing
> machine.   What is your word?
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 I really like your description. You can almost see the blue sheets folding
and unfolding. My word was Torus but its a bit ragged and the motion I
think is more poloidal than toroidal. Hence the washing machine. Maytag
combustion:)

Alex

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