Combustion Theory

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Preface to the Second Edition
 Preface to the First Edition
 Table of Contents
 1: SUMMARY OF RELEVANT ASPECTS OF FLUID DYNAMICS AND CHEMICAL KINETICS
 1.1. The conservation equations for multicomponent, reacting, ideal-gas mixtures
 1.2. One-dimensional flow
 1.2.1. Unsteady flow
 1.2.2. Steady flow
 1.3. Coupling functions
 1.4. Conservation conditions at an interface
 1.5. Discussion of the approach adopted in the following development of combustion theory
 References
 2: RANKINE-HUGONIOT RELATIONS
 2.1. General Rankine-Hugoniot equations. 2.1.1. Derivation of the equations2.1.2. The cold-boundary difficulty
 2.1.3. Use of the Rankine-Hugoniot equations
 2.2. Analysis of a simplified system
 2.2.1. Simplification of the Rankine-Hugoniot equations
 2.2.2. Dimensionless form
 2.2.3. Properties of the Hugoniot curve
 2.2.4. Analysis of the detonation branch
 2.2.5. Analysis of the deflagration branch
 2.2.6. Properties of Chapman-Jouguet waves
 2.3. Extension of the results to arbitrary systems
 2.3.1. Range of validity of the results of Section 2.2
 2.3.2. Frozen versus equilibrium sound speeds. 2.3.3. Proof that Ê#x8B
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 = ae, â#x88
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 at the Chapman-Jouguet points2.3.4. Summary of the properties of Hugoniot curves
 References
 3: DIFFUSION FLAMES AND DROPLET BURNING
 3.1. The flame at the mouth of a tube in a duct
 3.1.1. Definition of the problem
 3.1.2. Assumptions
 3.1.3. Solution of the species conservation equation for the coupling function Ã#x9F

 3.1.4. The flame shape and the flame height
 3.1.5. The flame sheet approximation
 3.1.6. The validity of the other approximations
 3.1.7. Comments on the formulation and the analysis
 3.2. The oxidation of carbon at the walls of a duct. 3.2.1. Definition of the problem3.2.2. The nature of carbon combustion
 3.2.3. Analysis
 3.3. The burning of a fuel particle in an oxidizing atmosphere
 3.3.1. Background and definition of the problem
 3.3.2. Assumptions
 3.3.3. Analysis predicting the burning rate
 3.3.4. Discussion of the buming-rate formula
 3.3.5. Predictions of other characteristics of burning droplets
 3.3.6. Further realities of droplet burning
 3.4. Structure of the flame sheet
 3.4.1. Approach to structure questions
 3.4.2. The mixture-fraction variable
 3.4.3. Activation-energy asymptotics. 3.4.4. Ignition and extinction3.5. Monopropellant droplet burning
 References
 4: REACTIONS IN FLOWS WITH NEGLIGIBLE MOLECULAR TRANSPORT
 4.1. Ignition delay and the well-stirred reactor
 4.2. Reactions in steady, quasi-one-dimensional flow
 4.2.1. Steady-state, quasi-one-dimensional conservation equations
 4.2.2. Specific impulse of rockets
 4.2.3. Near-equilibrium and near-frozen flows
 4.2.4. Application to the reaction A â#x87
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 B with species A and B present in only trace amounts
 4.2.5. Freezing of reactions
 4.2.6. Two-phase nozzle flow
 4.3. Reactions in unsteady, three-dimensional flow.