Existence conditions and drift velocities of adiabatic flame-balls in weak gravity fields

Combustion Theory and Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-296

  Joulin, Guy ^a,b   Kurdyumov, Vadim N ^a   Liñàn, Amable ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ENSMA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIFT; FLAME; GRAVITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033150639     PISSN: 13647830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1364-7830/3/2/005     Document Type: Article

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