Fundamentals of Combustion

L. Douglas Smoot, ed.. Coal Science and Technology, Fundamentals of Combustion, Vol. 20, Elsevier, New York, 1993. 

The fundamentals of combustion instability are presented by G. Searby in Chapter 5.1 and phenomena examined by him fall into two categories instability of flame fronts and thermo-acoustic instabilities. Each category can be subdivided further, and these are discussed. 

Spalding, D. B., Some Fundamentals of Combustion, Chap. 5. Butterworth, London, 1955. 

Strehlow, R. A., Fundamentals of Combustion. International Textbook Co., Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1984. 

The fundamentals of combustion systems are yielding to treatment at the present time, but interrelationships of their effects in a real combustor require much additional study, particularly in regard to combustion efficiency. Full-scale engine performance has not been explained in terms of fuel vaporization effects (44), and a survey of vaporization literature cannot be applied to a real combustor as the sole criterion for performance... 

Shock-Tube Investigation of Detonative Combustion , Uni v of Michigan Press, Oxford (1955) 1 3)The Gombustion Institute, "Combustion in Engines and Combustion Kinetics , Reinhold, NY(1955) 14)D. Spalding, "Seme Fundamentals of Combustion , Academic Press NY(1955) 15)B.P. Mullins, "Combustion Researches and Reviews , Interscience, NY... 

R. A. Strehlow, Fundamentals of Combustion, Scranton, Penn. International Textbook, 1968, 149-155. 

Spalding DB. Some Fundamentals of Combustion. London Butterworth, 1955. Arias-Zugasti M, Garcia-Ybarra PL, Castilo JL. Droplet vaporization at critical conditions long-time convective-diflnsive profiles along the critical isobar. Phys Rev 1999 60 2930-2941. 

Much of the research on advanced fuel synthesis and characterization, fundamentals of combustion, and early work on combustion control and emissions and plumes were covered in the recent book, Advances in Chemical Propulsion Science to Technology [1]. Some of the accomplishments that were not included, the progress made in Combustion Control since this publication and in the new areas of pulse detonation engines and high-speed jet noise control (over the past five years), have been reviewed. A number of these research efforts and the new scientific accomplishments and contributions are presented in this book. 

Although the fundamentals of combustion and explosion theory have been evolved over the last 100 years, the detailed application to most gases has been more recent. For simple molecules, the theoretical foundation is sound. For more complex species, particularly dust and mists, the treatment is more empirical. Nevertheless, good oqjcrimental data have been pooled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (Zabetakis, 1965 Kuchta, 1973), NFPA 68 (NFPA, 1994), VDI3673... 

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