Gas-phase entropy generation during transient methanol droplet combustion

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1288-1302

  Pope, Daniel N ^a   Raghavan, Vasudevan ^b   Gogos, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet combustion; Entropy generation; Methanol; Numerical model; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; DROPLET COMBUSTION; ENTROPY GENERATION; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; GASPHASE; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENT; METHANOL DROPLETS; MINIMUM VALUE; MOVING DROPLETS; MULTICOMPONENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REACTING FLOWS; SPRAY COMBUSTION; TOTAL ENTROPY; ZERO GRAVITY;

COMBUSTION; DROP FORMATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHANOL; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

ENTROPY;

EID: 77955230540     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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