Evaluation of the unsteady flamelet progress variable approach in Large Eddy Simulations of the ECN Spray A | Science and Technology for Energy Transition (STET)

Dossier LES4ECE’21: LES for Energy Conversion in Electric and Combustion Engines, 2021

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Issue		Sci. Tech. Energ. Transition Volume 77, 2022 Dossier LES4ECE’21: LES for Energy Conversion in Electric and Combustion Engines, 2021


Article Number		5
Number of page(s)		12
DOI		https://doi.org/10.2516/stet/2022004
Published online		22 April 2022

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