Safety Distances for Gas Flares: What Thermal Radiation Has to Do with It

A gas flare safely burns off residual gases — but in doing so it radiates considerable heat into its surroundings. How close may people, plant and neighbouring buildings come to a flare? This question is not left to feeling...

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Cw or Cd? When Flow Coefficients Trip over Translation

Anyone documenting a CFD analysis while switching between German and English technical language can overlook an awkward trap: the same physical quantity is named differently in each language — and transferring the coefficients by their letters...

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