Combustion characteristics of n-heptane and wood crib fires at different altitudes

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 32 II, Issue , 2009, Pages 2481-2488

  Li, Zhen Hua ^a   He, Yaping ^b   Zhang, Hui ^c,d   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Burning rate; Emissivity; Radiation heat flux; Temperature

Indexed keywords

FIRES; HEPTANE; TEMPERATURE;

BURNING RATE; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; EMISSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIRE EXPERIMENTS; FLAME TEMPERATURES; RADIATION HEAT FLUX; WOOD CRIB FIRE;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 67649298004     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.033     Document Type: Article

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