Combustion
Subtitle: Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, Modeling and Simulation, Experiments, Pollutant Formation
By: by Jürgen Warnatz, Ulrich Maas, Robert W. Dibble
Contributors: Maas, Ulrich; Dibble, Robert W.
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783642980299; 9783642980275
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Thermodynamics; Physics; Environmental protection
Description: Combustion is an old technology, which at present provides about 90% of our worldwide energy support. Combustion research in the past used fluid mechanics with global heat release by chemical reactions described with thermodynamics, assuming infinitely fast reactions. This approach was useful for stationary combustion processes, but it is not sufficient for transient processes like ignition and quenching or for pollutant formation. Yet pollutant formation during combustion of fossil fuels is a central topic and will continue to be so in future. This book provides a detailed and rigorous treatment of the coupling of chemical reactions and fluid flow. Also, combustion-specific topics of chemistry and fluid mechanics are considered, and tools described for the simulation of combustion processes. For the 2nd edition, the parts dealing with experiments, spray combustion, and soot were thoroughly revised.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fundamental Definitions and Phenomena; title: Experimental Investigation of Flames; title: Mathematical Description of Laminar Flat Premixed Flames; title: Thermodynamics of Combustion Processes; title: Transport Phenomena; title: Chemical Kinetics; title: Reaction Mechanisms; title: Laminar Prefixed Flames; title: Laminar Nonpremixed Flames; title: Ignition Processes; title: The Navier-Stokes Equations for Three-Dimensional Reacting Flows; title: Turbulent Reacting Flows; title: Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames; title: Turbulent Premixed Flames; title: Combustion of Liquid and Solid Fuels; title: Engine Knock; title: Formation of Nitric Oxides; title: Formation of Hydrocarbons and Soot.