A gridless solution of the radiative transfer equation for fire and combustion calculations

Combustion Theory and Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 159-175

  Gritzo, Louis A ^a   Strickland, James H ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FIRE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION;

EID: 0033106297     PISSN: 13647830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1364-7830/3/1/009     Document Type: Article

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