Lifted flames on fuel jets in co-flowing air

Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-30

  Lawn, C J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co flowing jet similarity; Lifted flames; Turbulence intermittency

Indexed keywords

COBALT; EXPERIMENTS; FLAMMABILITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; HEATING; METHANE; STABILIZATION; TURBULENCE;

CO-FLOWING JET SIMILARITY; ENERGY STORES; FLAME IMAGING; FLOW OF AIRS; FUEL JETS; HIGH TEMPERATURE GASSES; INTERMITTENCY; JET DIAMETERS; LARGE EDDIES; LIFTED FLAMES; MEAN FLOWS; MIXTURE FRACTIONS; REACTION ZONES; SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS; STOICHIOMETRIC PROPORTIONS; TIME-RESOLVED; TURBULENCE INTERMITTENCY; TURBULENT FLUIDS; TURBULENT JETS;

JETS;

EID: 57049106229     PISSN: 03601285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pecs.2008.06.003     Document Type: Review

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