Lecture Notes

 

Combustion Theory

Professor Moshe Matalon's Lecture Notes:

Front Cover
  1. Lecture 1 - Conservation Equations
  2. Lecture 2 - Constitutive Relations
  3. Lecture 3 - Chemical Kinetics
  4. Lecture 4 - Deflagrations and Detonations
  5. Lecture 5 - Stoichiometry Dimensionless Parameters
  6. Lecture 6 - The Planar Premixed Flame
  7. Lecture 7 - Detonation Waves
  8. Lecture 8 - Laminar Premixed Flames
  9. Lecture 9 - Ignition and Extinction Phenomena
  10. Lecture 10 - Diffusion Flames
  11. Lecture 11 - Lifted Diffusion Flames and Edge Flames
  12. Lecture 12 - Droplet Combustion Spray Modeling
  13. Lecture 13 - Flame Instabilities
  14. Lecture 14 - Turbulent Combustion
  15. Lecture 15 - The Tubulent Burning Velocity

Combustion Chemistry

Professor Michael J. Pilling's Lecture Notes
  1. Experiment
  2. Experiment and Theory 
  3. Thermodynamics 
  4. Evaluation of Rate Data
  5. Chemical Mechanisms
  6. NOx Chemistry
  7. Atmospheric Processes

Quantitative Laser Diagnostics for Combustion Chemistry and Propulsion

Professor Ronald K. Hanson's Lecture Notes
  1. Overview & Introduction
  2. Diatomic Molecular Spectra
  3. Diatomic Molecular Spectra (continued)
  4. Polyatomic Molecular Spectra
  5. Quantitative Emission / Absorption
  6. Spectral Lineshapes
  7. Electronic Spectra of Diatomics
  8. Case Studies of Molecular Spectra
  9. Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrospcopy (TDLAS)
  10. TDLAS Applications in Energy Conversion
  11. Shock Tube Techniques
  12. Shock Tube Applications - with Lasers
  13. Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF)
  14. Laser-Induced Fluorescence: Applications (Part 1)
  15. Laser Induced Fluorescence: Applications (Part 2)

Computational Turbulent Combustion

Dr. Thierry Poinsot's Lecture Notes

  1. Introduction
  2. Combustion Basics
  3. Turbulent Combustion
  4. Simulation Tools for 3D Reacting Flows
  5. Chemistry and High Performance Computing
  6. Combustion Instabilities
  7. Tools to Study Combustion Instabilities
  8. Instabilities in Combustors: Case Studies
  9. Azuimuthal Instabilitiesin Annular Combustion Chambers
  10. Bifurcations in Combustors
  11. Flame/Wall Interactions in Combustion Chambers
  12. Flame Ignition and Propagation