Microgravity Combustion
Fire in Free Fall
Published on 3. September 2001
575 pages
978-0-08-054997-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.e., environments with very low gravity such as outer space. Readers are presented with a compilation of worldwide findings from fifteen years of research and experimental tests in various low-gravity environments, including drop towers, aircraft, and space.Microgravity Combustion is unique in that no other book reviews low- gravity combustion research in such a comprehensive manner. It provides an excellent introduction for those researching in the fields of combustion, aerospace, and fluid and thermal sciences.* An introduction to the progress made in understanding combustion in a microgravity environment* Experimental, theoretical and computational findings of current combustion research* Tutorial concepts, such as scaling analysis* Worldwide microgravity research findings
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Howard D. Ross
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Basics of Microgravity Combustion
- 1. Motivation
- 2. Fundamentals of the influence of gravity on flames
- 3. Experimental methods to minimize the influence of buoyancy
- 4. Achieving microgravity
- 5. The candle flame as an example of gravitational influences on combustion
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 2. Premixed-gas Flames
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Comparison of time scales
- 3. Flammability limits
- 4. Flame instabilities
- 5. Stretched and curved flames
- 6. `Cool flames'
- 7. Turbulent flames
- 8. Recommendations for future studies
- 9. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Laminar and Turbulent Gaseous Diffusion Flames
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Intrusion of gravity
- 3. Laminar flames
- 4. Turbulent flames
- Chapter 4. Microgravity Droplet Combustion
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Classical theory of droplet combustion
- 3. Role of spherical symmetry in droplet combustion theory and experiments
- 4. Advances in theoretical description of droplet combustion
- 5. Experimental methods
- 6. Pure fuel droplet combustion: n-Heptane
- 7. Methanol droplet combustion
- 8. Multicomponent droplet combustion
- 9. Extensions of isolated droplet combustion
- 10. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 5. Mechanisms of Flame Spread and Smolder Wave Propagation
- 1. Flame spread over solid surfaces
- 2. Flame spread across liquid pools
- 3. An overview of microgravity smoldering
- Chapter 6. Metal Particle Combustion and Classification
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metal combustion classification
- 3. Metal particle combustion regimes
- 4. Microgravity metal combustion research
- 5. Summary and future recommendations
- Chapter 7. Microgravity Combustion for Materials Synthesis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Condensed-phase combustion synthesis (CCS and SHS)
- 3. Gas-phase combustion synthesis
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 8. Combustion Technology and Fire Safety for Human-crew Space Missions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fire prevention in spacecraft
- 3. Fires and flame spread in low gravity
- 4. Fire detection
- 5. Fire control and suppression
- 6. Combustion and fire in martian and lunar missions
- 7. Concluding remarks
- Index
- Colour Plate Section
