THEORY OF TURBULENT FLAMES

In the first edition of this book the comment was made that, in a sense, the topic of premixed turbulent flames did not belong in a book on combustion theory because the theoretical basis of the subject was practically undeveloped. This statement is no longer true. In recent years remarkable progress has been made in the theory of turbulent flames, and a number of new approaches to the subject are available for both premixed and non-premixed systems. Moreover, a few of these approaches are sufficiently firmly based to enable analyses to be pursued with high confidence in limiting cases. Therefore, it is now entirely appropriate to discuss theories of turbulent combustion here. In fact, the subject is so broad that we shall be able to cover only a portion of it and must refer to recent reviews [13]-[40] for more extensive presentations. In particular, [27] is a 250-page book devoted to the subject. 

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