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Microgravity combustion [electronic resource]

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This book provides an introduction to understanding combustion, the burning of a substance that produces heat and often light, in microgravity environments-i.e., environments with very low gravity such as outer space. Readers are presented with a compilation of worldwide findings from fifteen years of research and experimental tests in various low-gravity environments, including drop towers, aircraft, and space.Microgravity Combustion is unique in that no other book reviews low- gravity combustion research in such a comprehensive manner. It provides an excellent introduction for

Title Microgravity combustion [electronic resource] : fire in free fall / edited by Howard D. Ross.
Publisher San Diego : Academic Press
Creation Date c2001
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Basics of Microgravity Combustion
1. Motivation
2. Fundamentals of the influence of gravity on flames
3. Experimental methods to minimize the influence of buoyancy
4. Achieving microgravity
5. The candle flame as an example of gravitational influences on combustion
6. Concluding remarks
Chapter 2. Premixed-gas Flames
1. Introduction
2. Comparison of time scales
3. Flammability limits
4. Flame instabilities
5. Stretched and curved flames
6. `Cool flames'
7. Turbulent flames
8. Recommendations for future studies
9. ConclusionsChapter 3. Laminar and Turbulent Gaseous Diffusion Flames
2. Intrusion of gravity
3. Laminar flames
4. Turbulent flames
Chapter 4. Microgravity Droplet Combustion
2. Classical theory of droplet combustion
3. Role of spherical symmetry in droplet combustion theory and experiments
4. Advances in theoretical description of droplet combustion
5. Experimental methods
6. Pure fuel droplet combustion: n-Heptane
7. Methanol droplet combustion
8. Multicomponent droplet combustion
9. Extensions of isolated droplet combustion
10. Concluding remarksChapter 5. Mechanisms of Flame Spread and Smolder Wave Propagation
1. Flame spread over solid surfaces
2. Flame spread across liquid pools
3. An overview of microgravity smoldering
Chapter 6. Metal Particle Combustion and Classification
2. Metal combustion classification
3. Metal particle combustion regimes
4. Microgravity metal combustion research
5. Summary and future recommendations
Chapter 7. Microgravity Combustion for Materials Synthesis
2. Condensed-phase combustion synthesis (CCS and SHS)
3. Gas-phase combustion synthesis4. Concluding remarks
Chapter 8. Combustion Technology and Fire Safety for Human-crew Space Missions
2. Fire prevention in spacecraft
3. Fires and flame spread in low gravity
4. Fire detection
5. Fire control and suppression
6. Combustion and fire in martian and lunar missions
7. Concluding remarks
Index
Colour Plate Section
Series Combustion treatise
Extent 1 online resource (601 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010710448805171
MARC RECORDS
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