CATALOG DATA:
Thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion reactions, modeling of reacting fluid mechanical systems, subsonic and supersonic combustion, detailed and one-step kinetics, ignition theory, asymptotic and numerical techniques for modeling combustion systems.

TEXTBOOKS:
Warnatz, J., Maas, U., and Dibble, R.W., Combustion: Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, Modelling and Simulation, Experiments, Pollutant Formation, third edition, Springer: Berlin, 2001(required)
Fickett, W., and Davis, W.C., Detonation: Theory and Experiment, Dover: New York, 2001(required)
Zel’dovich, Y.B., and Razier, Y.P., Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamics Phenomena, Dover: New York, 2002(recommended)

GOALS:
This entry level graduate course provides the advanced undergraduate with a foundation in combustion theory. The successful student will leave with an appreciation of how chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics and computational science can be used to predict complex phenomena. That student will have employed a variety of advanced techniques whose importance transcends combustion, such as asymptotic analysis, dynamic systems analysis, stability theory, and computational analysis can be brought to bear on important problems in combustion.

3. Prerequisites: AME 30334 or equivalent

Topics:

• Chemical kinetics of simple systems
• Thermodynamics of reacting systems
• Governing equations of fluids with reaction, convection and diffusion
• Ignition and stability of simple reaction-diffusion systems
• Detonation theory for simple reaction-convection systems

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared the course description:
Engineering Science: 3 credits or 100%
Engineering Design: 0 credits

Prepared by: Professor Joseph Powers
Last Update: May 19, 2004.

 

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