Combustion

Course Name: 

TH703 Combustion

Programme: 

M.Tech (Thermal Engineering)

Semester: 

First

Category: 

Programme Core (PC)

Credits (L-T-P): 

(3-0-0) 3

Content: 

Fuels and their properties, Review of basic thermodynamics and gaseous mixtures, combustion thermodynamics,
stoichiometry, the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics applied to combustion, composition of products in
equilibrium, fundamentals of combustion kinetics, theory of thermal ignition, self ignition temperature, ignition
delay, flame phenomena, deflagration and detonation, laminar flame propagation, flammability limits, flame
quenching and minimum ignition energy, laminar burning ve locity measurements, turbulent flame
propagation, flame stabilization, diffusion flames: gaseous jet flames, burning of condensed phase, vaporization and
combustion of liquid fuel droplet, spray combustion, combustion of solid fuels, Rocket motor systems.

References: 

Glassman I., Combustion 2 Edition, Academic Press, 1987 Kuo K.K. Principles of Combustion, John wiley & Sons, New York 1986 Stephen R.Turns, An Introduction to combustion, concepts and applications, 2e, McGraw Hill, 2000 Gary L. Borman and Kenneth W Ragland, Combustion Engineering, McGraw Hill,1998 R.M.Fristrom, Flame structure and processes, McGraw Hill, New York, 1995 Mukunda H.S., Understanding Combustion, Macmillan India Limited, Madras 1992 S.P Sharma and Chandermohan, Fuels and Combustion, Tata McGraw Hill

Department: 

Mechanical Engineering
 

Contact us

Dr. S M Murigendrappa

Professor and Head,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK),

Surathkal

P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangaluru - 575 025 Karnataka, India.

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