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Why humans build fires shaped the same way
Here we see why humans unwittingly build fires that look the same: edifices of fuel, as tall as they are wide. The pile of fuel is permeable, air invades it by natural convection and drives the combustion. I show that the hottest pile of burning fuel occurs when the height of the pile is roughly the...
Autor principal: | Bejan, Adrian |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26053318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11270 |
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