Interactions between turbulence and flames in premixed reacting flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Hamlington, Peter E ^a,b,c   Poludnenko, Alexei Y ^a   Oran, Elaine S ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMBUSTION; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY;

FLAME ORIENTATION; FLAME STRUCTURE; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SCALAR GRADIENTS; SEPARATE EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 84855274297     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3671736     Document Type: Article

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