Comparison of displacement speed statistics of turbulent premixed flames in the regimes representing combustion in corrugated flamelets and thin reaction zones

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REACTION RATES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW;

CORRUGATED FLAMELETS; FLAME SURFACE DENSITY;

FLAME RESEARCH;

COMBUSTION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLAME RESEARCH; REACTION RATES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 35748967900     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2784947     Document Type: Article

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