Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I -- Behavior of Propagating Flames in Premixed Media -- Chapter II. Ignition Dynamics -- Numerical Simulation of Ignition Processes andCombustion Wave Propagation in H2O2 ReactionSystems -- Detailed Numerical Simulation of H2O2 Ignition inTwo-Dimensional Geometries -- Simulation of "Hot-Spot" Ignition in H2O2 andCH4-Air Mixtures: A Parametric Study -- Analysis of Self-Ignition for Nonunit Lewis Number -- Chapter III. Diffusion Flames and Their Structure -- Temperature Measurement of an Axisymmetric FlameUsing Phase Shift Holographic Interferometry with Fast Fourier Transform -- Effect of Gas-Phase Radiation on Flame Speed in Counterflow Premixed Flames -- Two-Dimensional Simulation of a Methane-AirPremixed Flame near Stoichiometry -- NOx Emission Characteristics of RichMethane-Air Flames -- OH Radical Distribution in the Cold Zone of C3H8-Air Flame -- Dynamics of Laminar Counterflow Hydrogen-Air Diffusion Flames near Extinction and Ignition Limits -- Modeling and Computation of Strained Laminar Diffusion Flames with Thermal Radiation -- Systematically Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms: Sensitivity Analysis -- Quenching Corrected Laser Saturated FluorescenceMeasurements of OH Concentration at High Pressure -- Chapter IV. Nonsteady Flames -- Dynamics of Flames near the Rich-FlammabilityLimit of Hydrogen-Air Mixtures -- Stability of Nonadiabatic Cellular Flamesnear Extinction -- Numerical Simulations of Interactions of Flameletswith Shock Waves in the Premixed Gas -- Behavior of Propagating Flame in a Rotating Flow field -- Flame Propagation and Extinction in a ClosedChannel with Cold Sidewalls -- Experimental Determination of the Laminar BurningVelocity of Iso-Octane-Air Mixtures by Means of aSpherical Combustion Vessel.

New Flamelet Approach to Model the TransientPhenomena Following Ignition in a Turbulent Diffusion Flame -- Detailed Analysis of Tulip Flame Phenomenon Using Numerical Simulation -- Chapter V. Combustion in Shear Layers -- Study of Combustion Dynamics for Passive and Active Control -- Proposed Discrete Vortex Model for Vortex Pairing -- Three-Dimensional Calculation of a Hydrogen Jet Injection into a Supersonic Air Flow -- Compressibility, Exothermicity, and Three Dimensionality in Spatially Evolving Reactive Shear Flows -- Author Index.