Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research

Progress in Energy and Combustion Science - Tập 37 Số 6 - Trang 669-715 - 2011
Yiguang Ju1, Kaoru Maruta2
1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263, USA
2Institute of Fluid Science Tohoku University Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan

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