Stabilisation mechanism of a flickering methane diffusion flame with co-flow of air

Engineering Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Darabkhani, Hamidreza Gohari ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co flow air; Diffusion flames; Flame dynamics; Flickering suppression; Outer vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649941990     PISSN: 1816093X     EISSN: 18160948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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