Modelling lifted hydrogen jet fires using the boundary layer equations

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1383-1390

  Onokpe, O ^a   Cumber, P S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consequence analysis; Fire safety; Lifted jet fires

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISASTERS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEN; JETS; METHANE; PROPANE; QUENCHING;

BOUNDARY LAYER EQUATIONS; BULK STRAINS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FIRE SAFETY; FLAMELET; FLOW PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN ECONOMIES; HYDROGEN JETS; LIFTED JET FIRES; MEAN FLOW PROPERTIES; MODEL CALIBRATIONS; MODEL-BASED; NUMERICAL ERRORS; RESIDENCE TIME; TIME-SCALE;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 60649107125     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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