A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

Charles E. Baukal, Jr is currently a Director at the John Zink Institute, a training and educational company for combustion engineers and researchers, and an Executive Officer with the Combustion Institute and the Program Chair for the American Society of Engineering Educators. Ajay K. Agrawal is the Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama. Sandra Olson is from the NASA Glenn Research Center and has served as PI, Co-I, and Project Scientist on numerous flight experiments and ground-based studies. Michael Gollner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Timothy Jacobs is a Professor of and the Steve Brauer, Jr '02 Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Mark Vaccari is a Development Engineer at John Zink Hamworthy Combustion and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma.

'This is an excellent and impressive collection of color photographs depicting combustion processes in various types of flames, fires and practical devices, and is intended to complement the resources in literature. The gallery is valuable to enthuse students and new researchers to combustion field, as well as to serve as pictorial diagnostics for experienced investigators. This book fills a long-standing void in combustion literature.' Subramanyam Gollahalli, University of Oklahoma

• 1. Fundamentals introduction; 2. CFD introduction; 3. IC Engines introduction; 4. Low gravity introduction; 5. Introduction; 6. Fire introduction.