AE/ME 6766: Course Overview
Catalog Description
Introductory chemical kinetics, detonations and deflagrations, laminar
flame propagation in premixed gases, ignition and quenching, laminar
diffusion flames and droplet burning, turbulent reacting flows.
Course Goals
A student taking this course is intended to understand the following
subjects:
- Modeling of chemical reaction rates and reaction
mechanisms.
- Simplified models for chemical reactors with combined chemical
and thermal analysis.
- Development of the conservation equations for reacting,
multispecies flows (including reaction rates and molecular transport).
- Propagation of laminar premixed combustion waves (detonations and
deflagrations).
- Physical and chemical effects on laminar, premixed flames (e.g.,
flame speed and thickness).
- Structure of laminar diffusion flames and burning droplets.
- Time and spatial scales in turbulent flames.
- Structure and governing processes in turbulent flames.
Prerequisites
AE/ME 6765 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Gases. Also, specific
areas/concepts
that students should have some familiarity with are:
- Exposure to compressible flow, specifically shocks.
- Some computer modeling/data graphics capability (Matlab,
spreadsheets, etc.)
Texts
Stephen Turns, An Introduction to Combustion:
Concepts and Applications, 3rd edition
Additional Texts:
Irvin Glassman et al., Combustion, 3rd-5theditions
Robert Kee,Michael Coltrin and Peter Glarborg, Chemically
Reacting Flow
C. K. Law, Combustion Physics
W. C. Gardiner Jr., Rates and
Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions
Forman Williams, Combustion Theory, 2nd
edition
Kenneth
Kuo, Principles of
Combustion
Roger Strehlow, Fundamentals of Combustion
Bernard Lewis and Guenther von Elbe, Combustion,
Flames and Explosions in Gases
Journals:
Combustion and Flame
Combustion Science and Technology
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
(International Symposia on Combustion)