Highly turbulent counterflow flames: A laboratory scale benchmark for practical systems

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1834-1843

  Coppola, Gianfilippo ^a   Coriton, Bruno ^a   Gomez, Alessandro ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterflow; Opposed jet; Turbulent flames

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COUNTERFLOW; COUNTERFLOW FLAMES; FLAME STABILIZATION; FUEL BLENDS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HIGHLY STRAINED; JET FLAMES; LABORATORY SCALE; LAMINAR FLAME; OPPOSED JET; PILOT FLAME; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; PREMIXED; RESIDENCE TIME; SOOT FORMATIONS; STOICHIOMETRIC MIXTURE FRACTION; TURBULENT FLAME; TURBULENT FLAMES; TURBULENT REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLAMMABILITY; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS TURBINES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; JETS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN RATE;

COMBUSTION;

FUEL;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE; FOSSIL; GAS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOOT; STOICHIOMETRY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 68049117339     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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