Title Combustion waves and fronts in flows : flames, shocks, detonations, ablation fronts and explosion of stars / Paul Clavin (Aix Marseille Université, France), Geoff Searby (Formerly Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marseille, France)

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Brief Historical Introduction; Energy and Modern Society; Combustion and Related Phenomena; Scope of the Book; Part One Physical Insights; 1 General Considerations; 1.1 Introductory Remarks; 1.2 Combustion Waves on Earth; 1.2.1 Combustion Modes; Propagating Waves; Non-Premixed Combustion; 1.2.2 Premixed Combustion ; Combustion Temperature and Equivalence Ratio ; Chemical Kinetics; Thermal Sensitivity and the Arrhenius Law; Cut-Off Temperature, Flammability Limits; Cool Flames Dimensional Analysis1.2.3 Flames in Premixed Gas ; Laminar Flame Speed, Thickness and Transit Time; 1.2.4 Diffusion Flames ; Internal Structure; 1.2.5 Gaseous Detonations; ZND Structure; Chapman-Jouguet Regime; Detonation Thickness; 1.3 Fronts and Thermal Waves in Extreme Conditions; 1.3.1 Thermonuclear Fusion; 1.3.2 Stellar Evolution and Supernovae; Stellar Structure; Supernovae; Thermonuclear Explosion (SNI); Core-Collapse Scenario for Supernovae (SNII); Back to Gravitational Collapse; 1.3.3 Inertial Confinement Fusion ; Context; Conditions for Ignition; Orders of Magnitude in Direct Drive Hydrodynamic Instability1.4 Appendix: Physical Constants and Conversion of Units; 2 Laminar Premixed Flames; 2.1 Main Characteristics; 2.1.1 The Quasi-Isobaric Approximation; 2.1.2 The Structure of Planar Flames; Flammability Limits; The Zeldovich and Frank-Kamenetskii Analysis; 2.1.3 Instabilities of Flame Fronts; 2.2 Hydrodynamic Instability; 2.2.1 Gas Expansion; Piston Effect; Weakly Wrinkled Flames; Deflection of the Streamlines; 2.2.2 The Darrieus-Landau (DL) Instability; Instability Mechanism; Linear Stability Analysis; Growth Rate of the DL Instability 2.2.3 Stabilisation at Small WavelengthsThermal Relaxation Rate; Marginal Wavenumber, a Heuristic Approach; Cells and Cusps; Linear Evolution Equation of the Flame Front; 2.2.4 Effect of Gravity ; Rayleigh-Taylor Instability; Threshold of Instability for Downwards-Propagating Flames; Theory and Experiments; 2.3 Flame Stretch and Markstein Numbers; 2.3.1 The First Markstein Number ; 2.3.2 Stretch Rate, Strain and Curvature of a Flame ; Passive Surface; Propagating Fronts; Pure Strain; Pure Curvature; 2.3.3 The Second Markstein Number ; Effect of Finite Thickness Markstein Numbers Measured in the Burnt GasImploding Spherical Flame; Stabilised Spherical Flame; Expanding Spherical Flame; High-Frequency Response; 2.3.4 Strong Stretch ; Tip of Bunsen Flame; Extinction by Strong Stretch; 2.4 Thermo-Diffusive Phenomena; 2.4.1 Cellular and Pulsating Flames ; Mechanism of the Cellular Instability; Cellular Instability in the Thermo-diffusive Model; Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation; Oscillatory Instability; 2.4.2 Flame Kernels and Quasi-isobaric Ignition ; Zeldovich Critical Radius (Spherical Flame Kernel for Le [neq] 1) ; Facilitated Ignition in Turbulence Summary A self-contained presentation of the dynamics of nonlinear waves in combustion and other non-equilibrium energetic systems for students and specialists Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 11, 2016) Subject Combustion. Waves. Chemical reactions. Dynamics. Nonlinear theories. Fluid mechanics. combustion. kinetics (dynamics) SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Physical & Theoretical. Chemical reactions Combustion Dynamics Fluid mechanics Nonlinear theories Waves Form Electronic book Author Searby, Geoff, 1945- author. ISBN 9781316758359 1316758354 9781316162453 1316162451 9781316757994 1316757994

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