Preface Prepared by the organizers of the Ein Gedi Workshop on Combustion

✍ Scribed by Ezra Bar-Ziv; David Golden; Thomas Just

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 121 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(89)90002-3

✦ Synopsis

The topic of the meeting was "Processes in Premixed Gas Combustion Systems," emphasizing chemical kinetics. However, the effect of inhomogeneities on the propagation of the burning process and on the interpretation of the data was a major topic. Diagnostic methods for monitoring important parameters of the burning mechanism and determining the level of mixedness were also discussed and the urgent need for a data base for modelling was emphasized.

In order to study chemical kinetics in inhomogeneous systems one must decouple the transport processes from the chemical reactions. Models that include both phenomena were discussed in this workshop.

The opening lecture was given by Raft Levine on "The Dynamics of Elementary Processes in Combustion Kinetics," discussing the details of potential energy surfaces and how dynamic calculations of these surfaces lead to understanding the analytical expressions for chemical rate coefficients.

A wide variety of topics in chemical kinetics was presented in the workshop. Jiirgen Wolfrum showed "How to Attack Complex Combustion Gas Systems." He discussed how detailed chemical kinetics measurements may be made with sophisticated modern techniques for the study of thermal rate data, the analysis of transport phenomeua, and the monitoring of power plant effluents. Wing Tsang discussed methods for