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Combustion, Third Edition

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This book is one of the few good books not only on the subject of combustion, but also in general. The writer's style is fascinating and explanatory.

This is a combustion book which gives emphasis not only on the thermo-fluid aspect of combustion encoutered in premixed and diffusion flames, but also devotes two chapters on the chemical principles of hydrocarbon oxidation and pollutant formation.

The mathematical formulations of the phenomena analysed are of course presented (chemical reaction mechanisms, flame propagation, diffusion flames, ignition, detonation etc). More importantly, however, the writer achieves to enhance the reader's physical and chemical intuition on the subjects analysed, be it flames, hydrocarbon oxidation or pollutant formation.

Moreover, the appendices are a source of a great amount of data, ranging from bond dissociation energies, to thermophysical properties, flammability limits, autoignition temperatures, reaction rate constants, etc.

The fact that this book has been cited in almost every other book on combustion is, of course, not coincidental.

An inspiring book.

Everything you need to know, but hard reading as extremely dry text. Plenty of problems to work through, but no worked examples or answers. Large appendix section full of helpful tables of properties

this is the right book for combustion with in depth subject. go for it!