Melting and spread of polymers in fire with the particle finite element method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1046-1072

  Onate, Eugenio ^a,b   Rossi, Riccardo ^a   Idelsohn, Sergio R ^a   Butler, Kathryn M ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dripping; Melting; Particle finite element method; Polymers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRE CONDITION; FLAME SPREAD; FLOW PROBLEMS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INCREMENTAL-ITERATIVE SCHEMES; KEY FEATURE; MODELING AND SIMULATION; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE-FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYMER PARTICLES; STANDARD FINITE ELEMENT; THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS; UPDATED LAGRANGIAN DESCRIPTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MELTING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 76649137639     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2731     Document Type: Article

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