Professor: Jaal Ghandhi

107 ERB

263-1684 (phone)

ghandhi@engr.wisc.edu

Tentative Office Hours: 3:30 MWF or by appointment

Objective: To provide a sound fundamental understanding of the physics of combustion phenomena, and to apply this knowledge to various applications in order to understand how the devices have been designed to recover useful work from the energy release while abating the associated pollutant emissions.

Textbook: Turns, S. R., An Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications, McGraw Hill, 1996.

Other Readings: A number of other references will be given in class to supplement the main text, and these books are on reserve at Wendt library.

Glassman, I., Combustion

Kanury, A., Introduction to Combustion Phenomena

Lewis, B. and Von Elbe, G., Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases

Strehlow, R., Combustion Fundamentals

Kuo, K, Principles of Combustion

Heywood, Internal Combustion Engines

Lefebvre, A., Gas Turbine Combustion

Homework Assignments: Homework assignments will be made in class. Late homework will only be accepted with an acceptable excuse. The homework will be graded on both correctness and style. Failure to present your results in a concise, easy to follow manner will result in deductions.

Project: A final paper will be due the last week of class and will be accompanied by a short oral presentation. The subject of the paper will be a combustion system of your choice.

Reading Assignments: It is highly recommended that the reading assignments be done before class. Reading assignments are provided on the tentative schedule, however the schedule is meant to serve only as a guideline and is subject to continual adjustment during the course of the semester. Periodical review with respect to the schedule will be performed.

Hour Exams: There will be two hour exams during the course of the semester.

Final Exam: The final exam is scheduled for exam period #20, which is 18 December at 10:05 AM.

Grading: Homework and Projects: 25%

Hour Exams: 40%

Final Exam: 35%