Mathematical modeling in combustion science. Proceedins of a conference held in Juneau, Canada, August 17-21, 1987 (Q1210765)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This volume in the Springer series ``Lecture Notes in Physics'' contains the proceedings of a workshop on the mathematics of combustion held in Juneau, Alaska, in August 1987, carefully edited by two of the protagonists in combustion theory, J. D. Buckmaster and T. Takeno. There were three main themes at this workshop reflected by contributions of international experts from the US and Japan: The first subject was on ``High Mach number combustion'' with papers on detonation propagation by \textit{A. K. Kapila} (Shock-initiation of a plane detonation wave) and \textit{S. D. Stewart}, \textit{J. B. Bdzil} (A lecture on denotation-shock dynamics) and on the growth of fluctuation during preignition by \textit{S. Tsugé}, \textit{H. Kohmoto} (Effects of preignition fluctuation growth on reducing the induction period). Other work is summarized under the general heading ``Complex chemistry and physics'' with papers on asymptotic techniques by \textit{T. Niioka} (Asymptotic analysis of branched-chain ignition in the counterfield flow) and \textit{F. A. Williams} (Asymptotic methods for flames with detailed chemistry), on evaporation phenomena by \textit{A. Umemura} (Unsteady transition from sub- to supercritical evaporation regime), on premixed flames by \textit{D. W. Mikolaitis} (High temperature extinction of premixed flames) and on modeling the burning behaviour of oxidizers by \textit{T. Mitani} (A model for lower deflagration limit and burning rate of catalyzed ammonium perchlorate). The third subject was ``Flame modeling relevant to turbulent combustion'' with contributions on stretched flames by \textit{S. Ishizuka} (An experimental study of tubular flames in rotating and nonrotating stretched flow fields), \textit{T. Takeno}, \textit{M. Nishioka}, \textit{S. Ishizuka} (Burning velocity of stretched flames) while stability issues have been addressed by \textit{J. Buckmaster}, \textit{R. E. Johnson} (Convection effets and the stability of hydrogen flame bubbles) and \textit{M. Matalon} (The stability of weakly stretched flames). Further papers are on premixed flames by \textit{A. Yoshida} (Characterization of turbulent premixed flame structure for mathematical modeling of combustion) and on diffusion flames by \textit{C. K. Law} (Extinction of counterflow diffusion flames with branching-termination chain mechanisms: theory and experiment). Finally, in addition to the above mentioned papers, the more informal part of the workshop has been documented by some introductory material on such topics as instabilities of detonation and instabilities in spherically growing flames, hydrogen flame bubble and propellant combustion.