Advances in Combustion Science: In Honor of Ya. B. by W. Sirignano, A. Merzhanov, L. De Luca

By W. Sirignano, A. Merzhanov, L. De Luca

Authored by way of essentially the most prestigious overseas researchers, this ebook includes 21 papers that tackle 5 basic catagories of combustion technology: flame idea, heterogeneous combustion, unsteady and mobile combustion, turbulent combustion, and explosions and detonations. The ebook is devoted to Yakov B. Zel'dovich, an eminent researcher recognized for his theoretical works on combustion and detonation, who served because the first Chairman of the medical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. the 1st 5 papers supply a viewpoint of the advancements in flame conception, and the serious position that Zel'dovich performed in them. the second one part examines the problems of heterogeneous combustion and the new advances within the box. The 3rd part addresses fabric facing unsteady mobile combustion, and the fourth investigates turbulent combustion. the ultimate part treats the topic of detonations and explosions.

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C. Leyer, A. A. Borisov and W. A. Sirignano, Vol. 151, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, AIAA, Washington, DC, 1993, pp. 263-273. 67 Frankel, M. , "Free Boundary Problems and Dynamical Geometry Associated with Flames," Dynamical Issues in Combustion Theory, edited by P. Fife, A. Linan and F. Williams, Vol. 35, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991, pp. 107-127. 68 Booty, M. , and Matkowsky, B. , "A Nonlinear Wave Equation in Nonadiabatic Flame Propagation," SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol.

And Zel'dovich, Ya. , "On Detonation of Gaseous Mixtures," Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 63, No. 5, 1948, pp. 553-556. 9 Zel'dovich, Ya. , Theory of Combustion and Detonation of Gases, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1944. IO Zel'dovich, Ya. , and Kompaneets, A. , Theory of Detonation, Gostechteorizdat, Moscow, 1955. 1 Zel'dovich, Ya. , "On the Theory of the Combustion of Powders and Explosives," Zhurnal Eksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, Vol. 12, No. 11-12, 1942, pp. 498524.

A Sequence of Period Doublings and Chaotic Pulsations in a Free Boundary Problem Modeling Thermal Instabilities," SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 4, 1994, pp. 1101-1112. , Matkowsky, B. , "Structure and Dynamics of Modulated Traveling Waves in Cellular Flames," Physica D, Vol. 74, No. 1-2, 1994, pp. 437-459. , and Matkowsky, B. , "From Traveling Waves to Chaos in Combustion," SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1994, pp. 147-174. 75 Margolis, S. , and Williams, F.

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