Mathematical Modeling in Combustion and Related Topics

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Reminiscences on the Life and Work of G.S.S. Ludford....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
A Nonlinear Elliptic Problem Describing the Propagation of a Curved Premixed Flame....Pages 11-28
Mathematical Modeling in the Age of Computing: Is It Redundant?....Pages 29-42
Combustion and Compressibility in Gases....Pages 43-63
Cool Flame Propagation....Pages 65-75
Modeling the Chemistry in Flames....Pages 77-87
Computer Simulation of 2D/3D Reacting Flows in Complicately Shaped Regions for Engineering....Pages 89-101
Radiative Transfer in Unsteady, Weakly Curved, Particle-Laden Flames....Pages 103-130
Numerical Simulation of Coherent Structures in Free Shear Flows....Pages 131-150
Diffusion Flame Attachment and Flame Front Propagation along Mixing Layers....Pages 151-154
Some Remarks on Turbulent Combustion from the Attractor Point of View....Pages 155-172
Grid Requirements Due to the Inner Structure of Premixed Hydrocarbon Flames....Pages 173-184
Nonlinear Studies of Low-Frequency Combustion Stabilities....Pages 185-215
Non Linear Effects of Blow up and Localization Processes in Burning Problems....Pages 217-231
Remarks on the Stability Analysis of Reactive Flows....Pages 233-242
Experiments with Premixed Flames....Pages 243-259
Solution of Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Laminar Diffusion Flames by Adaptive Boundary Value Methods....Pages 261-300
Shock Induced Thermal Explosion....Pages 301-314
Influences of Detailed Chemistry on Asymptotic Approximations for Flame Structure....Pages 315-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Numerical Study of Particle-Laden Jets: A Lagrangian Approach....Pages 345-354
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Mathematical Modelisation of Enclosed Combustion at Constant or Variable Pressure by Vibe Law....Pages 355-363
Experimental and Numerical Study of a Heated Turbulent Round Jet....Pages 365-373
Relevance of Computation Methods in Combustion to the Development of Turboreactor Furnaces....Pages 375-382
Characterizing Self-Similar Blow-Up....Pages 383-392
Some Finite-Element Investigations of Stiff Combustion Problems: Mesh Adaption and Implicit Time-Stepping....Pages 393-409
Modeling of Turbulent Diffusion Flames with Detailed Chemistry....Pages 411-420
Kinetic Modelling of Light Hydrocarbons Combustion....Pages 421-429
Application of Variational Methods to Premixed, Homogeneous and Steady Turbulent Combustion....Pages 431-439
A Minimal Model for Turbulent Flame Fronts....Pages 441-448
A Theoretical Study of Air-Solid Two-Phase Flows....Pages 449-459
Dynamic Transition of a Self-Igniting Region....Pages 461-470
Numerical Model for Turbulent Reactive Flows with Swirl....Pages 471-480
Experimental Analysis on the Stability of an Oblique Flame Front....Pages 481-489
Vector Computers and Complex Chemistry Combustion....Pages 491-503
Numerical Model for Propellant Grain Burning Surface Recession....Pages 505-514
Global Existence of Solutions for a Problem in Dynamics of Thermal Explosions....Pages 515-518
Multimeshed Moving Finite Elements for the Calculation of Flame Speeds....Pages 519-527
Thin Flames and Interfaces....Pages 529-538
Second Order Remeshing Method in 2D-Lagrangian Fluid Dynamics....Pages 539-549
On Numerical Analysis of Two-Dimensional, Axisymmetric, Laminar Jet Diffusion Flames....Pages 551-560
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
An Algorithm for Allocation and Temperature, and Its Consequences for the Chemistry of H 2 -O 2 Combustion....Pages 561-567
Existence and stability in a plane premixed flame problem....Pages 569-577
Computation of Turbulent Diffusion and Premixed Flames with radiation....Pages 579-588
Back Matter....Pages 589-592