ABSTRACT
This book has touched upon only very few topics in the science and engineering of combustion. More advanced texts in the subject, such as those mentioned in the Preface, treat a substantially greater number of subjects than covered here and with a more rigorous base. For the reader whose interest has been piqued, the following is a list of subject areas of interest in combustion, not developed in this book:
The molecular theory of the thermodynamics of gases
The fully three-dimensional equations of change for fluids and solids
Imperfect gas and high pressure equation of state behavior
Supercritical fluid behavior
The molecular basis of chemical kinetics
Fluid—solid chemical interactions
Radiation heat transfer
142Mass and heat transfer mechanisms other than Fourier and Fick’s laws
The fluid mechanics and chemistry of pollutants such as the oxides of nitrogen and sulfer
Several mechanisms of flame instability
The combustion of solids such as coal and metals such as aluminum
Soot formation
Turbulent flames
Catalysis
The effects of gravitational buoyancy
Boundary layer combustion
Thermite reactions
The combustion of heterogeneous solid propellants
Complex hydrocarbon oxidation chemistry
The effects of fluid dynamic strain fields on flames
The calculation of transport properties
Fires
Surface tension effects in combustion
Supersonic combustion
Detonation phenomena in multiphase media
Vapor explosions
