Turbulence and Molecular Processes in Combustion

Turbulence and Molecular Processes in Combustion
Author: T. Takeno
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0444598898

An understanding of the intricacies in the turbulent combustion process may be a key to solving many of the current energy and environmental problems. The essential nature of turbulent combustion can be derived from the interaction between stochastic flow fluctuations and deterministic molecular processes, such as chemical reaction and transport processes. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most challenging fields of engineering science today, requiring as it does the interaction of scientists and engineers in the respective fields of chemical kinetics and fluid mechanics. The 28 papers in this volume review recent advances in these two disciplines providing new insights into the fundamental processes, addressing a great deal of recent progress. This progress ranges from descriptions of elementary chemical kinetics, to working those descriptions into combustion calculations with large numbers of elementary steps, to improved understanding of turbulent reacting flows and advances in simulations of turbulent combustion. The contributions will inspire further research on many fronts, advancing the understanding of combustion processes, as well as fostering a growing interdisciplinary cooperation.

Towards the Harnessing of Chaos

Towards the Harnessing of Chaos
Author: Masaya Yamaguchi
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This collection of papers presents a review of the various applications of chaos in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and engineering.

Toward Global Planning of Sustainable Use of the Earth

Toward Global Planning of Sustainable Use of the Earth
Author: Shunji Murai
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Hardbound. The contributors to this volume are experts in a wide variety of fields, such as global monitoring of environmental resources, and modeling of environmental system dynamics and interactions with human activities. The volume is intended to promote further research towards the development of global eco-engineering which is seeking continuous human habitation and improvement of human welfare, based on the sustainable utilization of global environmental resources and preservation of global eco-systems. A variety of disciplines are covered, including remote sensing, geography, meteorology, biology, biochemistry, ecology, marine science, hydrology, agriculture, environmental engineering, urban planning, social science, economy, ethics and philosophy.

Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2328
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

A world list of books in the English language.

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781009157971

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Vehicle Propulsion Systems

Vehicle Propulsion Systems
Author: Lino Guzzella
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540746927

The authors of this text have written a comprehensive introduction to the modeling and optimization problems encountered when designing new propulsion systems for passenger cars. It is intended for persons interested in the analysis and optimization of vehicle propulsion systems. Its focus is on the control-oriented mathematical description of the physical processes and on the model-based optimization of the system structure and of the supervisory control algorithms.

Advances in Turbulence VII

Advances in Turbulence VII
Author: Uriel Frisch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401151180

Advances in Turbulence VII contains an overview of the state of turbulence research with some bias towards work done in Europe. It represents an almost complete collection of the invited and contributed papers delivered at the Seventh European Turbulence Conference, sponsored by EUROMECH and ERCOFTAC and organized by the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur. New high-Reynolds number experiments combined with new techniques of imaging, non-intrusive probing, processing and simulation provide high-quality data which put significant constraints on possible theories. For the first time, it has been shown, for a class of passive scalar problems, why dimensional analysis sometimes gives the wrong answers and how anomalous intermittency corrections can be calculated from first principles. The volume is thus geared towards specialists in the area of flow turbulence who could not attend the conference as well as anybody interested in this rapidly moving field.