Laminar smoke points of coflowing flames in microgravity

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 550-555

  Dotson, K T ^a   Sunderland, P B ^a   Yuan, Z G ^b   Urban, D L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b National Center for Space Exploration Research   (United States)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combustion; Laminar gas jet diffusion flames; Residence time; Soot

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; DIFFUSION; ETHYLENE; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PROPYLENE; SMOKE; SPACE STATIONS;

CO-FLOW; COFLOWING; GAS-JET DIFFUSION; JET DIFFUSION FLAME; LAMINAR GAS JET DIFFUSION FLAME; LAMINAR JET DIFFUSION FLAMES; LAMINAR SMOKE POINTS; RESIDENCE TIME; SMOKE POINT; SOOT;

MICROGRAVITY;

EID: 80053955690     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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