The impact of preheating on stability limits of premixed hydrogen-air combustion in a microcombustor

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 661-668

  Wang, Yang ^a   Zhou, Zhijun ^a   Yang, Weijuan ^a   Zhou, Junhu ^a   Liu, Jianzhong ^a   Cen, Kefa ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING VELOCITY; FLAME STABILITY; HYDROGEN-AIR COMBUSTION; INNER DIAMETERS; MICRO COMBUSTOR; MICRO-SCALES; MICROCOMBUSTION; PREHEATING TEMPERATURE; PREMIXED; PREMIXED FLAME; REACTION TEMPERATURE; STABILITY LIMIT;

BLOWOUTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDROGEN;

PREHEATING;

EID: 84863023543     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2012.630274     Document Type: Article

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