CFD modelling of air and oxy-coal combustion

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 825-844

  Stȩchzy, Katarzyna ^a   Wecel, Gabriel ^a   Ingham, Derek B ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oxy coal combustion; Radiative heat transfer; WSGGM

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FLUE GAS TEMPERATURES; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OXY-COAL COMBUSTIONS; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; WEIGHTED-SUM-OF-GRAY-GAS MODELS; WSGGM;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 84899873712     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-02-2013-0066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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