On the fluid mechanics of fires

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2001, Pages 67-92

  Tieszen, Sheldon R ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Buoyancy; Nonpremixed combustion; Plumes; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; RADIATION; THERMAL PLUMES;

CANONICAL FLOW;

FIRES;

EID: 0034965513     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.33.1.67     Document Type: Article

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