ERF Professor Gore will review the work completed in the past ten years in the area of flame radiation, emphasizing the coupling between radiation heat transfer and flame structure. While emphasizing more recent work from his group, he will also review the earlier work done by other investigators and him. He will discuss his group's recent calculations with detailed chemistry for an opposed flow partially premixed flame including the effects of thermal radiation from gas-phase species. The results showed that thermal radiation has a significant effect on the flame structure.
Thermal radiation reduces the computed distance between the premixed and nonpremixed flames.
The effects of thermal radiation counteract those of the scalar dissipation rate leading to a collapse of the species concentrations with mixture fraction. The resulting functions describing species concentrations and temperature in terms of mixture fraction are called state relationships. The results show that thermal radiation effects should be considered in all future studies of flame chemistry. He completed a post-doctoral training program at the University of Michigan prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland. In 1991, Dr. Gore joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to rank of Full Professor in 1995.