Preface ....................................................... vii
Editors ........................................................ xi
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction: Challenges in Combustion ............... 1
Jozef Jarosinski and Bernard Veyssiere
Chapter 2 Diagnostics in Combustion: Measurements to Unravel
Combustion Chemistry ................................. 3
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
Chapter 3 Flammability Limits: Ignition of a Flammable
Mixture and Limit Flame Extinction .................. 15
3.1 Flammability Limits: History and Mechanism of Flame
Extinction ................................................ 15
Jozef Jarosinski
3.2 Ignition by Electric Sparks and Its Mechanism of Flame
Formation ................................................. 26
Michikata Kono and Mitsuhiro Tsue
Chapter 4 Influence of Boundary Conditions on Flame
Propagation ......................................... 35
4.1 Propagation of Counterflow Premixed Flames ................ 35
Chih-Jen Sung
4.2 Flame Propagation in Vortices: Propagation Velocity
along a Vortex Core ....................................... 45
Satoru Ishizuka
4.3 Edge Flames ............................................... 56
Suk Ho Chung
Chapter 5 Instability Phenomena during Flame Propagation ...... 67
5.1 Instabilities of Flame Propagation ........................ 67
Geoff Searby
5.2 Perturbed Flame Dynamics and Thermo-Acoustic
Instabilities ............................................. 80
Sébastien Candel, Daniel Durox, and Thierry Schuller
5.3 Tulip Flames: The Shape of Deflagrations in Closed
Tubes ..................................................... 93
Derek Dunn-Rankin
Chapter 6 Different Methods of Flame Quenching ............... 101
6.1 Flame Propagation in Narrow Channels and Mechanism of
Its Quenching ............................................ 102
Artur Gutkowski and Jozef Jarosinski
6.2 Flame Quenching by Turbulence: Criteria of Flame
Quenching ................................................ 110
Shenqyang S. Shy
6.3 Extinction of Counterflow Premixed Flames ................ 118
Chih-Jen Sung
6.4 Flame Propagation in a Rotating Cylindrical Vessel:
Mechanism of Flame Quenching ............................. 128
Jerzy Chomiak and Jozef Jarosinski
Chapter 7 Turbulent Flames ................................... 137
7.1 Turbulent Premixed Flames: Experimental Studies Over
the Last Decades ......................................... 138
Roland Borghi, Arnand Mura, and Alexey A. Burluka
7.2 Nonpremixed Turbulent Combustion ......................... 153
Jonathan H. Frank and Robert S. Barlow
7.3 Fine Resolution Modeling of Turbulent Combustion ......... 162
Laurent Selle and Thierry Poinsot
Chapter 8 Other Interesting Examples of Combustion and
Flame Formation .................................... 169
8.1 Candle and Jet Diffusion Flames: Mechanisms of
Combustion under Gravity and Microgravity Conditions ..... 170
Fumiaki Takahashi
8.2 Combustion in Spark-Ignited Engines ...................... 178
James D. Smith and Volker Sick
8.3 Combustion in Compression-Ignition Engines ............... 186
Zoran Filipi and Volker Sick
8.4 Deflagration to Detonation Transition .................... 197
Andrzej Teodorczyk
8.5 Detonations .............................................. 207
Bernard Veyssiere
Index ......................................................... 217
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