Aerosol formation under heterogeneous/homogeneous thermal decomposition of silane: Experiment and numerical modeling

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 879-906

  Onischuk, A A ^a   Levykin, A I ^b   Strunin, V P ^a   Ushakova, M A ^a   Samoilova, R I ^a   Sabelfeld, K K ^b   Panfilov, V N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND COMBUSTION   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PYROLYSIS; SILANES;

AEROSOL PARTICLE WALL DEPOSITION; HETEROGENEOUS/HOMOGENEOUS THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

DIMETICONE; HYDROGEN; SILANE; SILICON;

AEROSOL; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DECOMPOSITION; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034068579     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8502(99)00562-5     Document Type: Article

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