Modelling the combustion of solid-phase fuels in cone calorimeter experiments

Fire and Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Staggs, J E J ^a,b   Whiteley, R H ^a  

^a Raychem Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; COMBUSTION; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYETHYLENES; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ABLATION BASED MODELS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; SOLID PHASE FUELS; THERMAL EROSION;

FUELS;

EID: 0033097250     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1018(199903/04)23:2<63::AID-FAM671>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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