Combustion and Optimization

The optimization of combustion is an ongoing work since 1900 but recent progresses in this field have been tremendous. In the last twenty years, combustion devices have been optimized in terms of efficiency and pollutant emissions to reach norms which were impossible to imagine before. This has been done by the introduction of electronic monitoring and control (especially for car engines) but also by a better understanding of the combustion 

What makes combustors optimization even more difficult is the multiple non linearities and instabilities found in reacting flows  

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