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Fire in microgravity
I have been thinking about the way the fire behaves in microgravity. I
have found little information on this in the internet, so I am mostly just wondering, and these thoughts are what I want to share with you for discussion: In absence of gravity, the flames create a sort of sphere around the core of the fire (of course, this sphere will be limitated by the object in fire; depending on its shape, we will have an almost entire ball for a match, or just a semi-sphere in the case of a fire on a flat surface). Well, if the core of the fire is surrounded by flames (incandescent gases), how can the core be feed by fresh oxygen to keep the fire burning? Maybe this creates a sort of pulsating effect on the spherical flame, contracting it when the oxygen is running out, and allowing thus the flux of more oxygen into the core, which feeds again the flames to its previous size? If someone knows where can I find more information on this matter, I would be very grateful. Best regards, Javier Casado Space stuff in spanish in: http://es.geocities.com/fjcasadop |
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