Parametric investigations of premixed methane-air combustion in two-section porous media by numerical simulation

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1736-1742

  Liu, Hui ^a   Dong, Shuai ^b   Li, Ben Wen ^b   Chen, Hai Geng ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Porous media; Premixed combustion

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION IN POROUS MEDIA; DETAILED DESIGN; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; GAS TEMPERATURE; HIGH VELOCITY; INDUSTRIAL BURNERS; INLET VELOCITY; METHANE-AIR COMBUSTION; METHANE-AIR MIXTURE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS; POROUS BURNERS; POROUS MEDIA; PREMIXED; PREMIXED COMBUSTION; SOFTWARE FLUENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TWO DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT; USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY CHANGES;

COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; INLET FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; SMOKE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; THERMOANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 77951254802     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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