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Advances in combustion science : in honor of Ya. B. Zel'dovich / edited by William A. Sirignano, Alexander G. Merzhanov, Luigi De Luca.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 173.
- Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 173
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Combustion.
- Combustion engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Authored by some of the most prestigious international researchers, this book contains 21 papers that address five general catagories of combustion science: flame theory, heterogeneous combustion, unsteady and cellular combustion, turbulent combustion, and explosions and detonations.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Biography""; ""I. Flame Theory""; ""Chapter 1 Zel'dovich's Accomplishments in Combustion Science""; ""Chapter 2 Combustion Theory in the Post-Zel'dovich Period""; ""Chapter 3 Nonequilibrium Theory of Flame Propagation""; ""Chapter 4 Triple Flames as Agents for Restructuring of Diffusion Flames""; ""Chapter 5 Kinetic Foundation of Thermal Flame Theory""; ""II. Heterogeneous Combustion""; ""Chapter 6 Filtration Combustion""; ""Chapter 7 Metal Slurry Droplet and Spray Combustion""
- ""Chapter 8 Flame Spread Across Condensed Combustibles""""Chapter 9 Phenomenon of Nonthermal Propagation of Flameand Nonlinear Chain Branching""; ""III. Unsteady and Cellular Combustion""; ""Chapter 10 Cellular Flame Patterns and Dynamics""; ""Chapter 11 Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Combustion""; ""Color Plates""; ""Chapter 12 Intrinsic Stability of Energetic Solids Burning under Thermal Radiation""; ""IV. Turbulent Combustion""; ""Chapter 13 Turbulent Combustion Modeling: Ignition and Initial Period of Propagation""
- ""Chapter 14 Flame Curvature as a Determinant of Preferential Diffusion Effects in Premixed Turbulent Combustion""""Chapter 15 Gasdynamic Model of Turbulent Exothermic Fields in Explosions""; ""Color Plates""; ""Chapter 16 Combustion Theory and Conditional Moment Closure Modeling""; ""V. Explosions and Detonations""; ""Chapter 17 Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Combustion and Explosion""; ""Chapter 18 Initiation of Detonation by a Hypervelocity Projectile""; ""Chapter 19 Theory of Gaseous Detonations""; ""Chapter 20 Modern View of Gas Detonation Mechanisms""
- ""Chapter 21 Zel'dovich Theory of Detonability Limits""""Author Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60086-645-X
- 1-60086-426-0
- OCLC:
- 922978835
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