On the experimental determination of flame front positions and of propagation parameters for a fire

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1148-1157

  Chetehouna, K ^a   Sero Guillaume O ^b   Sochet, I ^a   Degiovanni, A ^b  

^a ENSI de Bourges   (France)

^b NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Characteristics of flame; Fire experiments; Fire front positions; Flame model; Heat flux sensor; Rate of spread

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; FLAME SPRAYING; FLAMMABILITY; FOOD PROCESSING; HEAT FLUX; HEATING EQUIPMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FLAME CHARACTERISTICS; FLAME FRONT; INVERSE METHOD (IM); LEAST SQUARE REGRESSION; NEW METHODS; PROPAGATION PARAMETERS; QUERCUS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION (RTE); THIN FLAMES;

FIRES;

EID: 45849128017     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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