ISE An Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications

Stephen R. Turns received degrees in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1970), Wayne State University (M.S., 1974), and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Ph.D., 1979). He was a research engineer at General Motors Research Laboratories from 1970 to 1975. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1979 and is currently Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Turns taught a wide variety of courses in the thermal sciences and received several awards for teaching excellence at Penn State. In 2009, he received the American Society of Engineering Education’s Ralph Coats Roe award. Dr. Turns had conducted research in several combustion-related areas. He is a member of The Combustion Institute, the American Institute of Aeronautics, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Dr. Turns is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

• 1 Introduction 2 Combustion and Thermochemistry3 Introduction to Mass Transfer4 Chemical Kinetics5 Some Important Chemical Mechanisms6 Coupling Chemical and Thermal Analyses of Reacting Systems7 Simplified Conservation Equations for Reacting Flows8 Laminar Premixed Flames9 Laminar Diffusion Flames10 Droplet Evaporation and Burning11 Introduction to Turbulent Flows12 Turbulent Premixed Flames13 Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames14 Burning of Solids15 Emissions16 Detonations17 Fuels18 Low-Carbon-Intensity CombustionAppendix A Selected Thermodynamic Properties of Gases Comprising C–H–O–N SystemAppendix B Fuel PropertiesAppendix C Selected Properties of Air, Nitrogen, and OxygenAppendix D Binary Diffusion Coefficients and Methodology for their EstimationAppendix E Generalized Newton’s Method for the Solution of Nonlinear EquationsAppendix F Computer Codes for Equilibrium Products of Hydrocarbon–Air CombustionAppendix G Atomic Weights, Physical Constants, and Conversion Factors