Numerical simulation of reactive flow (Q2739567)

The book is the second edition of the first one appeared, under the same title, in 1987. This edition is quite different from the first edition, mainly due to a lot of changes in computer technology and in techniques of numerical simulation. The objective of the book is to present a mathematical (especially numerical) analysis of reactive flows, i.e. multiphase flows with chemical reactions between the phases. The material is divided into 13 chapters which are grouped into three parts: chapters 1-4, a short course on modeling and numerical simulation; chapters 5-10, topics on numerical simulation of reactive-flow processes; chapters 11-13, simulation of complex reactive flows. Each chapter has nearly the same structure: first it presents the problem, then the principal results obtained till now, and finally theoretical and numerical examples from the literature or obtained by the authors themselves, as a rule in many tables and diagrams. The mathematical material is given in a general form, so that the classical fluid mechanics topics, such as ideal flows, compressible flows, viscous flows etc. are particular cases of the general form considered in the book. A vast bibliographical list contains about 800 titles distributed at the end of each chapter. The book can be useful to a large number of specialists -- mathematicians, physicists, numerical analysts and engineers.