Flickering behavior of turbulent buoyant fires using large-eddy simulation

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 679-712

  Cheung, S C P ^a   Yeoh, G H ^b   Cheung, A L K ^c   Yuen, R K K ^c   Lo, S M ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FIRES; FLICKERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

LOW MACH NUMBERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE QUANTITIES; SMAGORINSKY SUBGRID SCALE (SGS); TURBULENT BUOYANT FIRES;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 35648999124     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780701347713     Document Type: Article

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