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 | | Combustion: Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, Modeling and Simulation, Experiments, Pollutant Formation by Jürgen Warnatz, Ulrich Maas, Robert W. Dibble ISBN-10: 9783540652281 ISBN-10: 3-540-65228-0 ISBN-13: 9783540652281 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-65228-1 Hardcover 1999-03-30 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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 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. For the 2nd edition, the parts dealing with experiments, spray combustion, and soot were thoroughly revised. | ||
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Useful book This book is not a complete guide but is a good self-learning help. It can be also used as a quick reference. A good starting point for combustion studies. Then other books are required if complete treatment is required. Small but nice part of useful mathematics in appendix. Not a rigorous treatment but quick explanation of some topics related to CFD. | ||
Combustion modeling review This is a very good book. It format is very succictinct and as such spares no space for unecessary content. This give the narrative a somewhat terse style. It must be remembered that the science of combustion wrestles with some formidable concepts; such as turbulent flow, reduced reaction mechanisms for complex chemical reactions, fluid flow and heat transfer. This is not a book for those who are easily frightened by close typed differential equations. This book however, is an excellent introduction to the science of combustion, and contains a detailed and upto date biblography, pointing the interested reader in the right direction. It also contains one of the most complete tables of kinetic data for combustion reactions, I have seen in published literature. My one regret is that there is no companion volume of solved examples that could be used by an unassisted, but interested student. Read in conjunction with Smith/Missen, computation of chemical equilibrium, and Anderson's excellent introduction to Computational fluid dynamics, and the world of this facinating and most important field opens up. | ||