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Summary
Summary
Developing clean, sustainable energy systems is a pre-eminent issue of our time. Most projections indicate that combustion-based energy conversion systems will continue to be the predominant approach for the majority of our energy usage. Unsteady combustor issues present the key challenge associated with the development of clean, high-efficiency combustion systems such as those used for power generation, heating or propulsion applications. This comprehensive study is unique, treating the subject in a systematic manner. Although this book focuses on unsteady combusting flows, it places particular emphasis on the system dynamics that occur at the intersection of the combustion, fluid mechanics and acoustic disciplines. Individuals with a background in fluid mechanics and combustion will find this book to be an incomparable study that synthesises these fields into a coherent understanding of the intrinsically unsteady processes in combustors.
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Lieuwen is a professor and executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech. In this work, he offers a unified analysis of combustor system dynamics that includes fluid dynamics, combustion theory, and acoustics. In preparing this second edition, he has enhanced the treatment of many topics to the extent of about 100 additional pages, especially in the areas of stability, acoustic interactions, and flame dynamics, providing specific details on these expansions and updates at the end of the introduction. The book is designed for readers who have taken a graduate course in fluid mechanics and an additional course in combustion. Lieuwen also intended that the book be used as a reference for researchers interested in hydrodynamic stability or large-scale structures in combustor flows, including those interested in acoustic phenomena and thermo-acoustics, as well as flame stabilization, blowoff, and flashback phenomena. This well-written and well-designed book should be welcomed by all in the combustion science and engineering community, including graduate students. It will be especially useful to newer graduate students who need to learn about the breadth and depth of the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. --Alvin M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University
Table of Contents
| 1 Overview and basic equations |
| 2 Decomposition and evolution of disturbances |
| 3 Hydrodynamic flow stability part I: introduction |
| 4 Hydrodynamic flow stability part II: common combustor flowfields |
| 5 Acoustic wave propagation part I: basic concepts |
| 6 Acoustic wave propagation part II: heat release, complex geometry, and mean flow effects |
| 7 Flame-flow interactions |
| 8 Ignition |
| 9 Internal flame processes |
| 10 Flame stabilization, flashback, flameholding and blowoff |
| 11 Forced response part I: flamelet dynamics |
| 12 Forced response part II: heat release dynamics |
