Thermal particle image velocity estimation of fire plume flow

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 175, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1293-1316

  Zhou, Xiangyang ^a   Sun, Lulu ^a   Mahalingam, Shankar ^a   Weise, David R ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire; Temperature; TPIV; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INFRARED IMAGING; SAMPLING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

THERMAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCITY (TPIV); THERMAL PARTICLES;

THERMAL PLUMES;

EID: 0344875162     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200302376     Document Type: Article

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