- Author
- Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Fluid Mechanics and Combustion.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Report
- Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 7,
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 13th. August 23-29, 1970, Salt Lake City, UT, 1-18 p., 1970
- Keywords
- combustion | mechanisms | combustion waves | fire spread | solid fuels | boundary layers | ignition | stagnation point | spontaneous combustion | flow fields | fluid mechanics
- Abstract
- Combustion phenomena are basically chemical reactions with more or less heat and light produced. Often oxygen in some form is involved, but this is by no means necessary.