Lecture Notes

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Introduction

• Slides (pdf)

Combustion basics, flames

• Questions
• Slides (pdf)
• HCCI paper: Saxena and Bedoya 2013
• RCCI paper: Reitz and Duraisamy 2015
• Flameless combustion: Wunning and Wunning 1997
• MILD combustion: Cavaliere and Joannon 2004

Energy

• Questions
• Slides (pdf)

Stoichiometry

• Questions
• Stoichiometry , [notebook ]
• Revised stoichiometry

Mixture fraction

• Questions
• Mixture fraction

Adiabatic flame temperatures

• Questions
• Notes , [notebook ]
• Slides
• Cantera Tadiabatic versus mixture fraction (simpler, but less complete than the notes)
• Excel thermo data (right click, save as)
• Thermo data (python) , [notebook ] : streams.py (right click, save as)