An Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications
3rd Edition
Published on 16. February 2011
Book
Hardback
752 pages
978-0-07-338019-3 (ISBN)
Description
Introduction to Combustion is the leading combustion textbook for undergraduate and graduate students because of its easy-to-understand analyses of basic combustion concepts and its introduction of a wide variety of practical applications that motivate or relate to the various theoretical concepts. This is a text that is useful for junior/senior undergraduates or graduate students in mechanical engineering and practicing engineers.The third edition updates and adds topics related to protection of the environment, climate change, and energy use. Additionally, a new chapter is added on fuels due to the continued focus on conservation and energy independence.
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Person
Stephen R. Turns received degrees in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1970), Wayne State University (M.S., 1974), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Ph.D., 1979). He was a research engineer at General Motors Research Laboratories from 1970 to 1975. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1979 and is currently Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Turns taught a wide variety of courses in the thermal sciences and received several awards for teaching excellence at Penn State. In 2009, he received the American Society of Engineering Educations Ralph Coats Roe award. Dr. Turns had conducted research in several combustion-related areas. He is a member of The Combustion Institute, the American Institute of Aeronautics, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Dr. Turns is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Combustion and Thermochemistry Chapter 3: Introduction to Mass Transfer Chapter 4: Chemical Kinetics Chapter 5: Some Important Chemical Mechanisms Chapter 6: Coupling Chemical and Thermal Analyses of Reacting Systems Chapter 7: Simplified Conservation Equations for Reacting Flows Chapter 8: Laminar Premixed Flames Chapter 9: Laminar Diffusion Flames Chapter 10: Droplet Evaporation and Burning Chapter 11: Introduction to Turbulent Flows Chapter 12: Turbulent Premixed Flames Chapter 13: Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames Chapter 14: Burning of Solids Chapter 15: Emissions Chapter 16: Detonations Chapter 17: Fuels Appendix A: Selected Thermodynamic Properties of Gases Comprising C-H-O-N System Appendix B: Fuel Properties Appendix C: Selected Properties of Air, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Appendix D: Binary Diffusion Coefficients and Methodology for their Estimation Appendix E: Generalized Newton's Method for the Solution of Nonlinear Equations Appendix F: Computer Codes for Equilibrium Products of Hydrocarbon-Air Combustion