Observations on theories of flame structure

It would be of interest to employ results like those in the preceding section to ascertain the applicability of the steady-state approximation in specific flames. This has been done by different investigators, often with conflicting conclusions. The primary reason for the differences is uncertainty in values of reaction-rate parameters. Key specific reaction-rate constants sometimes are uncertain by an order of magnitude at representative flame temperatures. Better rate-constant data are needed to aid in the application of the methods discussed herein to specific flames. 

Mikhel son, On the Normal Ignition Rate of Fulminating Gas Mixtures, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Moscow (1889) see Collected Works, vol. 1, Moscow Novyi Agronom Press, 1930. 

Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Fluid Mechanics, New York Pergamon Press, 1959, Chapter XIV, pp. 474-476. 

Zel dovich, G. I. Barenblatt, V. B. Librovich, and G. M. Makhviladze, The Mathematical Theory of Combustion and Explosion, Moscow Nauka, 1980. 

Lewis and G. von Elbe, Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, 1st ed.. New York Academic Press, 1951, 213-220, 381 00. 

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