Experimental and scale up study of the flame spread over the PMMA sheets

Thermal Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-88

  Mamourian, Mojtaba ^a   Esfahani, Javad A ^a   Ayani, Mohammad B ^a  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flame spread; Pilot ignition; Polymethylmethacrylate; Scale up; Solid fuel

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FLAME RESEARCH; FUELS; HEAT TRANSFER; POLYESTERS; PYROLYSIS;

FLAME SPREAD; FLAME SPREAD RATE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; PILOT IGNITION; PMMA SHEETS; POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE; QUIESCENT ENVIRONMENTS; SCALE-UP; SOLID FUELS; SPREAD MECHANISM;

THERMOCOUPLES;

EID: 70350558437     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/TSCI0901079M     Document Type: Article

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