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... described in Ref. 2 . The swirling flow inside the reactor cavity can be approximated in this case by a solid body rotating flow, with: (4) u = c 3 r and (5) p = c 4 r 2 + c 5 13 M2d flow pattern; smoke-charged radial auxiliary flow − 2 L/M...