LES modelling of an unconfined large-scale hydrogen-air deflagration

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4366-4376

  Molkov, Vladimir ^a   Makarov, Dmitriy ^a   Schneider, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY ICT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; POLYETHERS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY CONTROL;

DEFLAGRATION; HYDROGEN AIR DEFLAGRATION; LARGE SCALE EXPLOSIONS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP (RNG);

HYDROGEN;

EID: 33749439321     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/20/012     Document Type: Article

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