- Author
- Malchi, J. Y. | Prosser, J. | Yetter, R. A. | Son, S. F.
- Title
- Realizing Microgravity Flame Spread Characteristics at 1 g Over a Bed of Nano-Aluminum Powder.
- Coporate
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
- Report
- Volume 32; Part 2,
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 32nd. Proceedings. Volume 32. Part 2. August 3-8, 2008, Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Montreal, Canada, Dagaut, P.; Sick, V., Editors, 2437-2444 p., 2009
- Keywords
- combustion | powders | flame spread | microgravity | aluminum | scaling | polymethyl methacrylate | equations | experiments | fuels | oxygen concentration | particle size | flame spread rate | vapor phases | diffusion flames
- Identifiers
- nanoscale aluminum (nAl) powders; kinetic regime; thermal regime; low-flow regime; orders of magnitude over different fuels at various oxygen concentrations; solid phase conduction as dominant mechanism; role of the oxidizer and the analogy to 1-D gaseous diffusion flame; properties of different size particles; fingering phenomenon