CFD study on hydrogen-air premixed combustion in a micro scale chamber

Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 161-172

  Shabanian, Sayed Reza ^a   Rahimi, Masoud ^a   Khoshhal, Abbas ^a   Alsairafi, Ammar Abdulaziz ^b  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

CFD; Flame temperature; Heat transfer; Hydrogen air; Micro combustion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861388596     PISSN: 10219986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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