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Original Articles

Outwardly Propagating Spherical Flames with Thermally Sensitive Intermediate Kinetics and Radiative Loss

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Pages 226-248 | Received 07 Apr 2012, Accepted 23 Jul 2012, Published online: 21 Feb 2013

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  • The current affiliation for Huangwei Zhang is Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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