Numerical studies of dispersion and flammable volume of hydrogen in enclosures

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6431-6437

  Zhang, J ^a   Delichatsios, M A ^a   Venetsanos, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSRD)   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; CFD models; Flammable volume; Hydrogen dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BUOYANT JETS; CFD MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; FLAMMABLE VOLUME; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; HYDROGEN RELEASE; HYDROGEN VOLUME FRACTION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; UPPER LAYER;

BUOYANCY; CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; DISPERSIONS; ENCLOSURES; EXPERIMENTS; FLAMMABILITY; GAS DYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TITRATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955130423     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.03.107     Document Type: Article

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