Use of computational modeling to identify the cause of vapor cloud explosion incidents

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 337-347

  Clutter, J K ^a   Whitney, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosions; Investigations; Modelling; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BLASTING; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; VAPORS;

VAPOR CLOUD EXPLOSION (VCE);

EXPLOSIONS;

EXPLOSION;

EID: 0035448984     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-4230(01)00022-5     Document Type: Article

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