Effects of varying Smagorinsky constant on simulating post-flashover fires

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-119

  Zou, Gao Wan ^a,b   Tan, He Ping ^a   Chow, Wan Ki ^c   Gao, Ye ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fire; Flashover; Large eddy simulation; Smagorinsky sub grid scale constant

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547512142     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: 10290257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618560701393544     Document Type: Article

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