Numerical simulation of the combustion of hydrogen-air mixture in micro-scaled chambers. Part I: Fundamental study

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3497-3506

  Hua, Jinsong ^a   Wu, Meng ^a   Kumar, Kurichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Heat transfer; Hydrogen; Micro combustion; Numerical analysis; Reaction engineering

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT LOSSES; HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; QUENCHING; REACTION KINETICS;

COMBUSTION-BASED MICRO-POWER DEVICES; FLOW RESIDENCE TIME; HYDROGEN-AIR MIXTURE; MICRO-SCALE COMBUSTION MECHANISM;

COMBUSTION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 17644413834     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.01.041     Document Type: Article

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