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Computer Modeling of Combustion Reactions in Flowing Systems with Transport

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In combustion systems, the strongly exothermic processes of fuel oxidation may give rise to localized reaction zones which propagate themselves into the unreacted material near them. There are two distinct mechanisms of propagation, deflagration and detonation. Deflagrations, travelling through the unburnt material at subsonic velocities, depend for their propagation on activation of adjacent material to a reactive condition by diffusive transport processes. Detonations, on the other hand, propagate at supersonic velocities by virtue of gasdynamic (shock) compression and heating of adjacent material, the shock wave itself being sustained by the energy release from the combustion process. In both cases the reaction zone propagates as a consequence of strong coupling between the combustion chemistry and the appropriate fluid mechanical process.

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Dixon-Lewis, G. (1984). Computer Modeling of Combustion Reactions in Flowing Systems with Transport. In: Gardiner, W.C. (eds) Combustion Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0186-8_2

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