Formation of a fire tornado and its breakdown

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Volumn 48, Issue , 1999, Pages 331-338

  Komurasaki, Satoko ^a   Kawamura, Tetuya ^b   Kuwahara, Kunio ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE TORNADO; TYPHOON; VORTEX BREAKDOWN;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; JETS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TORNADOES; TURBULENT FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0033320090     PISSN: 02856042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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