Simplified Reaction Mechanisms for the Oxidation of Hydrocarbon Fuels in Flames

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1981, Pages 31-43

  Westbrook, Charles K ^a   Dryer, Frederick L ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS - REACTION KINETICS; FUELS - COMBUSTION;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 0019676073     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102208108946970     Document Type: Article

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