Dynamics of Flames and Reactive Systems.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Modern Laminar Flame Theory -- Chapter I. Premixed Flames -- Effects of Chemical Equilibrium on the Structure and Extinction of Laminar Diffusion Flames -- Stretch Effects in Planar Premixed Hydrogen-Air Flames -- Slowly Varying Flames with Chain-Branching/Chain-Breaking Kinetics -- Effect of Dissociation on the Near-Stoichiometric Burning of Non-Dilute Mixtures -- The Feedback of a Flame Front on Turbulent Flows -- Flame Front Stability with General Intermolecular Interaction Potential -- Stability Limits and Critical Size of Structures in Premixed Flames -- Nonsteady Gasdynamic Effects in the Induction Domain Behind a Strong Shock Wave -- Structure of Premixed Laminar Methanol-Air Flames: Experimental and Computational Results -- Burning Velocities of Ethanol-Airand Ethanol-Water-Air Mixtures -- Computer Modeling Study of Acetylene-Oxygen Ignition and Flames Using a Truncated Reaction Mechanism -- Prediction of Laminar Flame Properties of Propane-Air Mixtures -- Homogeneity and Propagation of Autoignited Cool and Blue Flames -- Stability of Solid Propellant Combustion Subject to Nonplanar Perturbations -- Chapter II. Diffusion Flames -- Laminar Diffusion Flames with Cylindrical Symmetry,Arbitrary Values of Diffusion Coefficients and Inlet Velocities, and Chemical Reactions in the Approach Streams -- Transition and Transport in the Initial Region of a Turbulent Diffusion Flame -- Predicted Structure of Stretched and Unstretched Methane-Air Diffusion Flames -- An Experimental Study of Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flames -- Chapter III. Turbulent Combustion -- On Sound Sources in Turbulent Combustion -- Comparisons of Experimental and Computed Length Scales and Velocities in Turbulent Combustion.

Flow Rate and Equivalence Ratio Influences on the Thermal Field of a Turbulent Cool Flame -- Turbulent Reacting Concentric Jets:Comparison Between pdf and Moment Calculations -- Chapter IV. Constant Volume Combustion -- Influence of Turbulent Motion on Spark Ignition -- Vibratory Combustion Triggered by a Small Cavity in the Wall of a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber -- Direct Measurement of the Head-on Flame Quenching Distance in Closed Chambers -- Chapter V. Spray Combustion -- Timed Ignition of Explosives and Flammables from Desensitized Solutions -- Comparative Study of Droplet Heating and Vaporization at High Reynolds and Peclet Numbers -- Comparisons of Computed and Measured Dense Spray Jets -- A Study of the Motion of Vaporizing Droplets in a Turbulent Flow -- Simulations of Two-Dimensional Fuel Droplet Flows -- Induction Time Measurements for Ignition of Liquid Fuel Jets in Air at High Temperatures and Pressures -- Spray Characteristics of Simplex Swirl Atomizers -- Chapter VI. Nonequilibrium Flows -- Flows in Laval Nozzles with a High-Temperature Diatomic Gas -- Unsteady Aerodynamics of Chemically Reacting Flows Past Oscillating Thin Bodies -- Uniform Solutions for Characteristics and Weak Shock Waves in a Reactive Medium -- Chapter VII. Combustion Diagnostics -- CARS Instrument for Practical Combustion Measurements -- Study of OH-Saturated Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Low-Pressure Flame -- Flame Concentrations and Temperatures by Spontaneous Raman Spectroscopy -- The Application of Rotational Raman Spectroscopy to Dynamic Measurements in Gas Flowfields -- Flash X-Ray Tomographic System for Diagnostics of Microsecond Phenomena -- Two-Dimensional Imaging of Flame Temperature Using Laser-Induced Fluorescence -- LDV Measurements of Gas Flow Behind Reflected Shocks -- Droplet Size Distributions from Diffracted Light Intensities.

Measurement of NO in Methane-Air Flames by Tunable Atomic Line Molecular Spectroscopy -- Author Index.

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