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Journal of Combustion
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 716050, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/716050
Research Article

Interactive Combustion in a Linear Array of 2D Laminar Isolated and Triple Burner Jets

S. T. Tillman,1 S. Kuchibhatla,2 K. Annamalai,2 J. A. Caton,2 and D. Ranjan2

1Systems Development & Deployment, Information Systems, 6767 Old Madison Pike, Suite 160, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

Received 6 January 2012; Revised 27 May 2012; Accepted 6 June 2012

Academic Editor: Suk Ho Chung

Copyright © 2012 S. T. Tillman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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