INTRODUCTION
1. MAJOR AREAS OF COMBUSTION APPLICATION
2. SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES COMPRISING COMBUSTION
3. CLASSIFICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL COMBUSTION PHENOMENA
4. MAJOR COMBUSTION TEXTS AND JOURNALS
CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PRACTICAL REACTANTS AND STOICHOMETRY
3. CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM
4. EQUILIBRIUM COMPOSITION CALCULATIONS
5. ENERGY CONSERVATION
CHEMICAL KINETICS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHENOMENOLOGICAL LAWS OF REACTION RATES
3. THEORIES OF REACTION RATES
4. REACTION MECHANISMS
5. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
6. OXIDATION MECHANISMS OF HYDROCARBON AND CARBON MONOXIDE
7. OXIDATION MECHANISMS OF HYDROCARBONS
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHENOMENOLOGICAL DERIVATION OF DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS
3. SOME USEFUL RESULTS FROM KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
CONSERVATION EQUATIONS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CONTROL VOLUME DERIVATION
3. SUMMARY OF CONSERVATION EQUATIONS AND CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS
4. CONSERVATION EQUATIONS FOR A SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM
5. COUPLING FUNCTION FORMULATION
6. LOCAL COUPLING FUNCTION FORMULATION
7. NEAR-EQUIDIFFUSION FORMULATION
8. GOVERNING EQUATIONS FOR A MODEL SYSTEM
9. FLAME SHEET FORMULATION
HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER WITHOUT CHEMICAL REACTIONS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOW
3. STEFAN FLOW
4. DROPLET VAPORIZATION AND CONDENSATION
DIFFUSION FLAMES
1. INTRODUCTION
2. A MODEL OF 1-D FLAME
3. THE BURKE-SCHUMANN FLAME
4. DROPLET COMBUSTION
COMBUSTION WAVES IN PRE-MIXTURES
1. INTRODUCTION
2. RANKINE-HUGONIOT RELATIONS
3. DETONATION AND DEFLAGRATION WAVES
4. CHAPMAN-JOUGUET WAVES
LAMINAR PREMIXED FLAMES
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PHENOMENOLOGICAL DERIVATION OF FLAME SPEED
3. MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF THE LAMINAR FLAME PROPAGATION PROBLEM