BFRL ICON Combustion. 2nd Edition.


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Glassman, I.

Combustion. 2nd Edition, Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, FL, 515 p., 1986.

Keywords:

combustion; thermodynamics; flame temperature; reaction kinetics; fuels; laminar flames; gas combustible; flame research; detonation; diffusion flames; ignition; environmental control systems; char

Abstract:

Motivations to write a second edition of Combustion were numerous. Great progress has been made in many areas of this field, and the original edition was being used as a text and therefore required problem sets and improved methods of explaining many of the basic concepts that had evolved over another decade of teaching.



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