An experimental study of a reactive plume in grid turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 312, Issue , 1996, Pages 373-407

  Brown, R J ^a   Bilger, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTION RATE; CHEMILUMINESCENT ANALYSERS; CONSERVED SCALAR THEORY; DAMKOHLER NUMBER; HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY; KOLMOGEROV SCALES; REACTIVE PLUME; SCALAR STATISTICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENT GRID FLOW;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRIC ACID; OZONE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TURBULENT FLOW;

GAS FLOWS; GRIDS; OZONE/NITRIC OXIDE; PLUMES; REACTIVE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030127383     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002054     Document Type: Article

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