Flame shapes and burning rates of spherical fuel particles in a mixed convective environment

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 48, Issue 25-26, 2005, Pages 5354-5370

  Raghavan, V ^a,b   Babu, V ^a   Sundararajan, T ^a   Natarajan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GAS FUELS; HEAT CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ENERGY CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; FLAME SHAPES; SPHERICAL FUEL PARTICLES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

FLAME; MIXED CONVECTION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 27844503039     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2005.07.029     Document Type: Article

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