Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Dynamics of Turbulent Combustion -- Amplification of a Pressure Wave by Its PassageThrough a Flame Front -- Flame Curvature and Flame Speed of a TurbulentPremixed Flame in a Stagnation Point Flow -- Near-Field CARS Measurements and the LocalExtinction of TYirbulent Jet Diffusion Flames -- Correlation of Temporal and Spatial Data inTurbulent Premixed Bunsen Flames -- Numerical Simulation and Statistical Aspects of aSimple Model for "Hole Dynamics" in TtirbulentDiffusion Flames -- Modeling of Autoignition in Nonpremixed T\irbulentSystems: Closure of the Chemical-Source Terms -- Chapter II. Combustion in Dust-Air Mixtures -- Shock-Wave Induced Combustion of Dust Layers -- Some Fundamental Characteristics of CornstarchDust-Air Flames -- Combustion of Single NonsphericalCellulosic Particles -- Mechanism of Flame Propagation in Dust-Air andHybrid Mixtures -- Boron Particle Ignition and Liquid Film RuptureBecause of Surface Tension Effects -- Quenching of Rich Dust Flames -- Experiments on Turbulent Flame Propagation inDust-Air Mixtures -- Chapter III. Droplet Combustion -- Liquid Vaporization from Fine Metal Slurry Droplets -- Numerical Simulation of Fuel DropletEvaporation and Ignition Under High Temperatureand High Pressure -- Euler System Modeling Vaporizing Sprays -- Ignition Process of Compound Spray CombustibleMixtures -- Chapter IV. Pulsed Jet Combustion -- Augmentation of Combustion in a Chamber by aSmall Hydrogen-Air Jet Flame -- Performance of a Pulsed Jet Combustion System in aSwirl and a TYirbulent Field -- Numerical Simulation of Pulsed JetPlume Combustion -- Chapter V. Internal Combustion Engines -- Thermodynamics of Combustion in an Enclosure -- Large Eddy Simulation of the Premixed Flamein an Engine.

Mechanism for Inhomogeneity in Ignition ofCompressed Mixtures -- lonization of Compression IgnitionLow-Temperature Flames -- Examination of the Degree of Sudden CompressionRequired to Produce Detonation for ThermallySensitive Chemistry -- Author Index.