Characteristics of aluminum combustion obtained from constant-volume explosion experiments

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 182, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 904-921

  Santhanam, P R ^a   Hoffmann, V K ^a   Trunov, M A ^b   Dreizin, E L ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Reactive Metals Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol flame thickness; Aluminum combustion; Burning velocity; Dust flames

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMBUSTION; BURNING VELOCITY; DUST FLAMES; FLAME THICKNESS;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM POWDER METALLURGY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUST; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; FLAMMABILITY; METHANE; OXYGEN; VELOCITY;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 77954454120     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200903418278     Document Type: Article

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