Effects of strain rate and curvature on surface density function transport in turbulent premixed flames in the thin reaction zones regime

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a   Cant, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS (DNS); ISOSCALAR LINES; SDF PROPAGATION; SURFACE DENSITY FUNCTION (SDF);

STRAIN RATE;

FLAME;

EID: 21244456834     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1923047     Document Type: Article

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