Modeling lifted methane jet fires using the boundary-layer equations

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-258

  Cumber, P S ^a   Spearpoint, M ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANE; QUENCHING; STRAIN; TURBULENCE;

JET FIRES; LIFT-OFF MODELS;

JETS;

EID: 31744449998     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790500291921     Document Type: Article

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