Predicting blast overpressures caused by vapor cloud explosions in the vicinity of control rooms

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-24

  Van Wingerden, Kees ^a   Hansen, Olav Roald ^a   Foisselon, Pierre ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MICHELSEN RESEARCH AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS;

VAPOR CLOUD EXPLOSIONS;

EXPLOSIONS;

EID: 0033099539     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.680180105     Document Type: Article

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