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Fundamental Combustion Characteristics of Hydrogenous Mixtures

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A laminar flame velocity is one of the fundamental characteristics of premixed combustible gas reactivity. It specifies an amount of mixture reacting across a unit flame front area per unit time. According to the classical definition, a laminar flame (combustion) velocity is the expansion rate of a flat one-dimensional flame front in the direction normal to the wave surface with respect to the unburned gas [1].

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Gelfand, B.E., Silnikov, M.V., Medvedev, S.P., Khomik, S.V. (2012). Fundamental Combustion Characteristics of Hydrogenous Mixtures. In: Thermo-Gas Dynamics of Hydrogen Combustion and Explosion. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25352-2_1

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