Advanced thermal plasma modelling

High Temperature Material Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 255-336

  Murphy, A B ^a   Boulos, Maher I ^b   Colombo, V ^c   Fauchais, Pierre ^d   Ghedini, E ^c   Gleizes, A ^e   Mostaghimi, Javad ^f   Proulx, P ^b   Schram, D C ^g  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA TURBULENCE;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DE-MIXING; PLASMA-LIQUID INTERFACES; SOLID PARTICLES; THERMAL PLASMA; TIME-DEPENDENT MODELS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 60049095325     PISSN: 10933611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/hightempmatproc.v12.i3-4.30     Document Type: Article

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