Combustion: Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, Modeling and Simulation, Experiments, Pollutant Formation

by Jürgen Warnatz

This book provides a rigorous treatment of the coupling of chemical reactions and fluid flow. Combustion-specific topics of chemistry and fluid mechanics are considered and tools described for the simulation of combustion processes. This edition is completely restructured. 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 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 are heavily revised.

390 pages, Hardcover

First published February 16, 1996

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overall introduction to almost every aspect of combustion (primarily for modelers) for someone new to the field or in need of concise and clear descriptions. It was useful for writing my thesis methodology, in which I described non-premixed flames (laminar and turbulent), detailed chemistry, local extinctions and lean blow off phenomena. Its visual schematics are helpful and evocative, and it's one of the few combustion texts that really explains how chemical kinetic mechanisms work and are used for simulations.