Laminar premixed flame extinction limits. I Combined effects of stretch and upstream heat loss in the twin-flame unburnt-to-unburnt opposed flow configuration

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 452, Issue 1951, 1996, Pages 1857-1884

  Dixon Lewis, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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ANALYSIS-MATHEMATICAL; FLAMES;

EID: 0030478171     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1996.0099     Document Type: Article

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