Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Ignition Dynamics -- Ignition Processes in Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixtures and the Influence of the Uniform Pressure Assumption -- Relationship Between Ignition Delay and Reaction Zone Energy Release -- Study of Methane Ignition in Reflected Shock Waves -- Ignition Processes of Falling Droplet Columns Behind a Reflected Shock -- Low-Temperature Ignition of Acetaldehyde Oxygen Mixtures Initiated by Organic Peroxides Adsorbed on a Reaction Vessel Surface -- Chapter II. Flame Chemistry -- Systematic Reduction of Flame Kinetics:Principles and Details -- Sensitivity Analysis in Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Combustion -- Study of the Influence of Nitrogen Oxides on the Chemi-ionization in C2H2/O2/Ar Flames -- Chapter III. Diffusion Flames in Shear Flows -- Asymptotic Analysis of the Structure and Extinction of Methane-Air Diffusion Flames -- Structure and Extinction Limits of Some Strained Premixed Flames -- Influences of a Tangential Shear Flow and Differential Diffusion on Hydrodynamic Flame Stability -- Simulation of Stretched Premixed CH4-Air and C3H8-Air Flames with Detailed Chemistry -- Stability of a Premixed Laminar V-Shaped Flame -- Flame Propagation in a Nonuniform Mixture: The Structure of Anchored Triple-Flames -- Chapter IV. Dynamics of Flames -- Fluid Mechanical Properties of Flames in Enclosures -- Dynamic Effects of Flame Baroclinicity -- Flame Propagation Model by Use of Finite-Difference Methods -- Numerical Study on the Reaction Process in a Plane Shear Layer -- Flame Front Turbulence Behavior in an Accelerating or Decelerating Methane-Air Mixture -- Mechanism of Gas Flame Acceleration in the Presence of Neutral Particles -- Possible Acoustic Source in Turbulent Combustion -- Structure of Unsteady and Steady Hydrogen/Air Premixed Flames.

Flame Flashback for Low Reynolds Number Flows -- Chapter V. Combustion Diagnostics -- Diagnostics in Reacting Flows -- Multidirection Speckle Photography of Density Gradients in a Flame -- Investigations of the Instantaneous Density Field of Tubulent Premixed Conical Flames -- Author Index.