Investigating the Behavior of Natural Gas Flame in a Spark Ignition Engine

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Sahand University of Technology

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Sahand New Town, Tabriz, Iran

Keywords


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