Fundamentals of Combustion Processes

by Sara McAllister, Jyh-Yuan Chen, A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Overview

Fundamentals of Combustion Processes is designed as a textbook for an upper-division undergraduate and graduate level combustion course in mechanical engineering. The authors focus on the fundamental theory of combustion and provide a simplified discussion of basic combustion parameters and processes such as thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, ignition, diffusion and pre-mixed flames. The text includes exploration of applications, example exercises, suggested homework problems and videos of laboratory demonstrations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461428657
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Series:	Mechanical Engineering Series
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Sara McAllister graduated with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Mechanical Engineer USDA Forest Service RMRS - Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory Missoula.

Jyh-Yuan Chen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello is a Professor and Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Endowed Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Nomenclature.- Fuel.- Thermodynamics of Combustion.- Chemical Kinetics.- Review of Transport Equations and Properties.- Ignition Phenomena.- Premixed Flames.- Non-Premixed Flames (Diffusion Flames).- Droplet Evaporation and Combustion.- Emissions.- Premixed Piston IC Engines.– Diesel Engines.- Labs.- Properties of Fuels.- Properties of Air at 1 atm.- Properties of Ideal Combustion Gases.- Elementary Reaction Mechanisms.- Summary of Limits of Flammability.- Minimum Ignition Energy.- Antoine Equation.- Flash Points for Common Fuels.- Properties of Some Alcohol Fuels and Ammonia

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The authors attempt to explain the phenomena of combustion from the basic principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and chemistry. The book covers various aspects of combustion in a concise manner. … the book is well written with sufficient explanation for the ease of the readers. … it certainly is a graduate text on combustion. In addition, it may attract wide readership from researchers and practicing engineers.” (K. N. Shukla, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1225, 2012)

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