Examination of the flame spread limits in a dual fuel engine

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1071-1080

  Badr, O ^a   Karim, G A ^a   Liu, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL FUEL ENGINES; FLAME RESEARCH; FLAMMABILITY; GAS FUELS; IGNITION;

FLAME SPREAD LIMITS;

DIESEL ENGINES;

EID: 0032647224     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(98)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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