Overview
- Editors:
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Norbert Peters
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Institut für Technische Mechanik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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Bernd Rogg
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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Unstretched Premixed Flames
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- F. Mauss, N. Peters, B. Rogg, F. A. Williams
Pages 29-43
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- W. Wang, B. Rogg, F. A. Williams
Pages 44-57
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- Fabian Mauss, R. P. Lindstedt
Pages 102-122
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- C. Kennel, F. Mauss, N. Peters
Pages 123-141
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Counterflow Diffusion Flames
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Front Matter
Pages 157-157
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- E. Gutheil, G. Balakrishnan, F. A. Williams
Pages 177-195
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- J. -Y. Chen, Y. Liu, B. Rogg
Pages 196-223
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- H. K. Chelliah, K. Seshadri, C. K. Law
Pages 224-240
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- R. P. Lindstedt, F. Mauss
Pages 241-258
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- K. M. Leung, R. P. Lindstedt, W. P. Jones
Pages 259-283
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- C. M. Müller, K. Seshadri, J. Y. Chen
Pages 284-307
About this book
In general, combustion is a spatially three-dimensional, highly complex physi co-chemical process oftransient nature. Models are therefore needed that sim to such a degree that it becomes amenable plify a given combustion problem to theoretical or numerical analysis but that are not so restrictive as to distort the underlying physics or chemistry. In particular, in view of worldwide efforts to conserve energy and to control pollutant formation, models of combustion chemistry are needed that are sufficiently accurate to allow confident predic tions of flame structures. Reduced kinetic mechanisms, which are the topic of the present book, represent such combustion-chemistry models. Historically combustion chemistry was first described as a global one-step reaction in which fuel and oxidizer react to form a single product. Even when detailed mechanisms ofelementary reactions became available, empirical one step kinetic approximations were needed in order to make problems amenable to theoretical analysis. This situation began to change inthe early 1970s when computing facilities became more powerful and more widely available, thereby facilitating numerical analysis of relatively simple combustion problems, typi cally steady one-dimensional flames, with moderately detailed mechanisms of elementary reactions. However, even on the fastest and most powerful com puters available today, numerical simulations of, say, laminar, steady, three dimensional reacting flows with reasonably detailed and hence realistic ki netic mechanisms of elementary reactions are not possible.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institut für Technische Mechanik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Norbert Peters
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Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Bernd Rogg
