An Introduction to Combustion

PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- UST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOMENCLATURE -- 1 INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW -- 1.1 General Introduction -- 1.2 Chemistry and Physics Review -- 1.3 Problems -- 2 CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS -- 2.1 Introduction -- 22 Properties of Substances -- 2.3 Heats of Reaction and Formation -- 2.4 Adiabatic Flame Thmperature -- 25 Free Energy and Equilibrium Constant -- 2.6 Problems -- 3 CHEMICAL KINETICS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reaction Rate -- 3.3 Radicals -- 3.4 Explosion Example-The Hydrogen-Oxygen Explosion -- 3.5 Global Kinetics -- 3.6 Problems -- 4 PREMIXED FLAMES -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Hugoniot -- 4.3 Plane Laminar Flame -- 4.3.1 Structure -- 4.3.2 Experimental Results -- 4.3.3 Flammability Limits, Flashback and Quenching -- 4.4 Heterogeneous Plane Deflagrations -- 4.5 Plane Detonations -- 4.6 The Stirred Reactor -- 4.7 Problems -- 5 IGNITION -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Thermal Ignition -- 5.3 Spark Ignition -- 5.4 Problems -- 6 DIFFUSION FLAMES -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Gaseous Jets -- 6.3 Droplet Burning -- 6.4 Problems -- 7 FLAME STABIUZATION -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Afterburners and Ramjets (Bluff Body Stabilization) -- 7.3 Gas Turbine Combustors -- 7.4 Problems -- 8 MODERN MEASUREMENTS IN COMBUSTION -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Laser Velocimetry -- 8.3 Rayleigh Scattering -- 8.4 Raman Spectroscopy -- 8.5 Laser Induced Fluorescence -- 8.6 Problems -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- JANNAF Thermochemical Tables -- INDEX.