Advanced Combustion

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 432 or equivalent. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Advanced treatment of fundamental combustion processes. Conservation equations for reacting gas mixtures. The structure of one-dimensional diffusion and premixed flames; introduction to activation energy asymptotics. Two-dimensional Burke-Schumann flames and boundary layer combustion. Flame instabilities and flame stretch; turbulent combustion.