Structure and soot formation characteristics of a double coflow methane diffusion flame

Collection of Technical Papers - 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1175-1186

  Liu, Fengshan ^a,c   Smallwood, Gregory J ^a,c   Kong, Wenjun ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Building M 9 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FUEL BURNERS; JETS; METHANE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOOT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COFLOW BURNERS; METHANE DIFFUSION FLAMES; RADIATIVE PROPERTY MODEL; SOOT FORMATION;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 33845529928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-3285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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