Fire whirls due to surrounding flame sources and the influence of the rotation speed on the flame height

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 583, Issue , 2007, Pages 313-345

  Zhou, Rui ^a   Wu, Zi Niu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; VORTEX FLOW;

INFLOW BOUNDARY LAYER; ROTATING VORTEX;

FLAME RESEARCH;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; FLAME RESEARCH; VORTEX FLOW;

FIRE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROTATING FLOW; VORTEX;

EID: 34547411517     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007006337     Document Type: Article

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