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Controlling Mechanisms of Flame Spread

A. C. FERNANDEZ-PELLO Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, U.S.A
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T. HIRANO Engineering Research Institute, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Pages 1-31 | Received 07 Jan 1982, Accepted 04 Nov 1982, Published online: 03 Apr 2007

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