The mechanism of two-dimensional pocket formation in lean premixed methane-air flames with implications to turbulent combustion

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 15-48

  Chen, Jacqueline H ^a   Echekki, Tarek ^a   Kollmann, Wolfgang ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; METHANE; RADICAL;

AIR; COMBUSTION; FLAME; METHANE; TURBULENCE;

AIR; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 0004781216     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-2180(98)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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