CFD experience on industrial combustors

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 1-13

  Lockwood, F C ^a   Abbas, T ^b   Kandamby, N H ^b   Sakthitharan, V ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CINAR LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Combustion; Emission; Industrial combustors; NOx

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMBUSTORS; FUELS; HEAT RADIATION; HYDROCARBONS; TURBULENCE;

ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0009806659     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/pcfd.2001.001466     Document Type: Article

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