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Mechanisms of Microgravity Flame Spread Over a Thin Solid Fuel: Oxygen and Opposed Flow Effects

S. L. OLSON NASA Lewis Research Center, mail stop 500-217, Cleveland, OH, 44135View further author information
Pages 233-249 | Received 19 Jul 1990, Accepted 05 Nov 1990, Published online: 06 Apr 2007

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