LES of high pressure hydrogen jet fire

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-359

  Brennan, S L ^a   Makarov, D V ^a   Molkov, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrogen; Hydrogen safety; Jet fire; LES

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; DISASTERS; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FLAMMABILITY; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; HYDROGEN; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXTURES; NOZZLES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; TURBULENCE;

BLOW DOWNS; COMBUSTION MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FLAME LENGTHS; FLAME TURBULENCES; FLAMELET; GRID RESOLUTIONS; HIGH PRESSURES; HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGENS; HYDROGEN ENERGIES; HYDROGEN JETS; HYDROGEN SAFETY; INDUSTRIAL SAFETIES; INITIAL PRESSURES; JET FIRE; JET FLAMES; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; LENGTH-SCALE; LES; MIXTURE FRACTIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; REACTING MIXTURES; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TURBULENCE INTENSITIES; WILLIAMS;

JETS;

EID: 62349137803     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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