Overview
- Advanced textbook treating fundamentals and modern experimental and particularly numerical methods
- Based upon recent research results of physics, chemistry, and fluid dynamics
- Important applications like engine knocking and the formation of pollutants are presented
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Combustion is an old technology, which at present provides about 90% of our worldwide energy support. Combustion research in the past used fluid mechanics with global heat release by chemical reactions described with thermodynamics, assuming infinitely fast reactions. This approach was useful for stationary combustion processes, but it is not sufficient for transient processes like ignition and quenching or for pollutant formation. Yet pollutant formation during combustion of fossil fuels is a central topic and will continue to be so in the future. This book provides a detailed and rigorous treatment of the coupling of chemical reactions and fluid flow. Also, combustion-specific topics of chemistry and fluid mechanics are considered and tools described for the simulation of combustion processes.
The actual fourth edition presents a completely restructured book: Mathematical Formulae and derivations as well as the space-consuming reaction mechanisms have been replaced from the text to appendix. A new chapter discusses the impact of combustion processes on the earth’s atmosphere, the chapter on auto-ignition is extended to combustion in Otto- and Diesel-engines, and the chapters on heterogeneous combustion and on soot formation appear heavily revised.
Reviews
From the reviews of the fourth edition:
"This book, now in its fourth edition, is intended as a text for beginning graduate students who are interested in some of the basic elements of combustion processes. …Throughout the book, the level of mathematics is fairly elementary. Thus, the subject can be followed by the targeted audience. … The authors have done an excellent job of organization. … In summary, I enjoyed reading this book and I recommend it. I may consider adopting it as a required text when I teach combustion again." (Peyman Givi, AIAA Journal, Vol. 45 (10), 2007)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Combustion
Book Subtitle: Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, Modeling and Simulation, Experiments, Pollutant Formation
Authors: Jürgen Warnatz, Ulrich Maas, Robert W. Dibble
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45363-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25992-3Published: 18 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06530-9Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45363-5Published: 23 September 2006
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XII, 378
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Physical Chemistry, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Classical and Continuum Physics