Tejas Chandrashekhar Mulky's research while affiliated with Oregon State University and other places

Publications (4)

Article
Smouldering combustion plays a key role in wildfires in forests, grasslands, and peatlands due to its common occurrence in porous fuels like peat and duff. As a consequence, understanding smouldering behaviour in these fuels is crucial. Such fuels are generally composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Here we present an updated computation...
Preprint
Smoldering combustion plays a key role in wildfires in forests, grasslands, and peatlands due to its common occurrence in porous fuels like peat and duff. As a consequence, understanding smoldering behavior in these fuels is crucial. Such fuels are generally composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Here we present an updated computational...

Citations

... In contrast, regarding the effects of moisture content, Huang and Rein [14] studied how moisture content affects the propagation speed of peat and observed an increase in downward propagation speed with moisture content, due to expansion of the peat. Recently, Smucker et al. [15,16] experimentally observed that smoldering propagation speed in mixtures of cellulose and hemicellulose decreases with density, and attributed this to oxygen availability. They also found that propagation speed increases with additional hemicellulose content in fuel, attributed to faster pyrolysis with addition of hemicellulose, from its lower activation energy and higher heat release. ...