Effects of forced convection and surface tension during methanol droplet combustion

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 787-798

  Raghavan, Vasudevan ^a,c   Pope, Daniel N ^b,c   Gogos, George ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c N104 Walter Scott Engineering Center ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCED CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION;

CONVECTION EFFECTS; DROPLET COMBUSTION; DROPLETS; ZERO-GRAVITY;

METHANOL;

COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCED CONVECTION; METHANOL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 33751001762     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.21174     Document Type: Article

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