Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Motivation, aims and audience / 1.1: |
Relevance / 1.1.1: |
Aims and structure / 1.1.2: |
Bibliography / 1.1.3: |
Governing equations / 1.2: |
Instantaneous equations and basic concepts / 1.2.1: |
Reynolds averaging / 1.2.2: |
The mean reaction rate / 1.2.3: |
Summary / 1.3: |
Exercises / 1.4: |
Some Comments on Turbulence / 2: |
Statistical description / 2.1: |
The randomness of turbulence / 2.2.1: |
Probability density functions / 2.2.2: |
Turbulent scales / 2.3: |
Large-eddy scales / 2.3.1: |
Dissipation and small scales / 2.3.2: |
Taylor microscale / 2.3.3: |
What are eddies? / 2.3.4: |
Temporal and spatial correlations / 2.4: |
Temporal autocorrelation / 2.4.1: |
The convergence of averages / 2.4.2: |
Spatial autocorrelation / 2.4.3: |
Taylor hypothesis / 2.4.4: |
Scalar scales / 2.4.5: |
Reynolds-averaged equations / 2.5: |
First moments / 2.5.1: |
Eddy diffusivity / 2.5.2: |
Second moments / 2.5.3: |
Computational Fluid Dynamics / 2.5.4: |
Spectra and intermittency / 2.6: |
Spectra / 2.6.1: |
Intermittency / 2.6.2: |
Mixing / 2.7: |
Molecular mixing / 3.1: |
Some analytical solutions / 3.2.1: |
Transport properties / 3.2.2: |
Random walk / 3.2.3: |
Brownian motion / 3.2.4: |
Turbulent mixing / 3.3: |
Taylor dispersion / 3.3.1: |
Characterization of mixing / 3.3.2: |
Length scales and spectra / 3.3.3: |
Scalar dissipation / 3.3.4: |
Reaction-diffusion systems / 3.4: |
Propagating front 1 / 3.4.1: |
Propagating front 2 / 3.4.2: |
Unsteady flamelet equation / 3.4.3: |
Final comments / 3.4.4: |
Flows with Non-premixed Reactants / 3.5: |
Moment methods / 4.1: |
Neglecting the fluctuations: very slow chemistry / 4.2.1: |
Eddy Dissipation Concept and derivatives / 4.2.2: |
Second-order / 4.2.3: |
Presumed joint pdf / 4.2.4: |
Other / 4.2.5: |
The well-stirred reactor / 4.3: |
Conserved scalar methods / 4.4: |
Mixture fraction / 4.4.1: |
Qualitative structure of a laminar non-premixed flame / 4.4.2: |
Fast chemistry / 4.4.3: |
The pdf of the mixture fraction / 4.4.4: |
Steady and transient flamelets / 4.4.5: |
Conditional Moment Closure / 4.4.6: |
Flame Surface Density / 4.4.7: |
Transported pdf / 4.5: |
Monte-Carlo method / 4.5.1: |
Further developments / 4.5.3: |
Concluding comments / 4.6: |
Flows with Premixed Reactants / 4.7: |
Laminar premixed flames / 5.1: |
Background / 5.2.1: |
Propagation / 5.2.2: |
Laminar premixed flame structure / 5.2.3: |
Estimation of laminar premixed flame thickness / 5.2.4: |
Effects of mixture strength: flammability limits / 5.2.5: |
Effects of pressure and temperature / 5.2.6: |
Turbulent premixed flames / 5.3: |
Turbulent burning velocity / 5.3.1: |
Stretch, strain and curvature / 5.3.2: |
Turbulent flame speed measurements / 5.3.3: |
Turbulent flame speed correlations / 5.3.4: |
Turbulent flame speed: a fractal approach / 5.3.5: |
Dimensionless numbers for turbulent premixed flames / 5.3.6: |
Regime diagrams / 5.3.7: |
Turbulent premixed combustion modelling / 5.4: |
Favre averaging / 5.4.1: |
Turbulent transport in premixed flames / 5.4.2: |
Eddy Break-Up Model for premixed flames / 5.4.3: |
The laminar flamelet concept / 5.4.4: |
Laminar flamelets in practice / 5.4.5: |
Bray-Moss-Libby transport modelling / 5.4.6: |
Bray-Moss-Libby reaction rate modelling / 5.4.7: |
Flame surface density modelling / 5.4.8: |
The G-equation formulation / 5.4.9: |
Other models for turbulent premixed flames / 5.4.10: |
Numerical Methods for Reacting Flows / 5.5: |
Combustion CFD / 6.1: |
Unsteady convection-diffusion-reaction equation / 6.2.1: |
Spatial discretisation / 6.2.2: |
Solution algorithms / 6.2.3: |
RANS, LES and DNS / 6.2.4: |
Numerical considerations for combustion problems / 6.2.5: |
Numerical solvers for stiff differential equations / 6.3: |
Forward Euler method / 6.3.1: |
Timescales and stiffness / 6.3.3: |
Properties of solvers / 6.3.4: |
Solvers for chemical systems / 6.3.5: |
Method of lines / 6.3.6: |
Experimental Methods for Reacting Flows / 6.3.7: |
General concepts / 7.1: |
Uncertainties and measurement errors / 7.2.1: |
Resolution and response / 7.2.2: |
Filtering / 7.2.3: |
Measurement techniques for reacting flows / 7.3: |
Visualization / 7.3.1: |
Intrusive techniques / 7.3.2: |
Non-intrusive techniques / 7.3.3: |
Epilogue / 7.4: |
Index |
Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
Motivation, aims and audience / 1.1: |