A Sheet Model for the Candle Flame
Abstract
The Burke-Schumann flame-sheet model is adopted for a study of the candle flame. The buoyant flow that is induced by the hot flame is treated as a variable-density boundary-layer flow in which transport properties are assumed to be proportional to the temperature. The main features of the calculated flame-sheet shape are in accord with those observed on an ordinary domestic candle.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A
- Pub Date:
- August 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspa.1993.0108
- Bibcode:
- 1993RSPSA.442..361R