MAE 532 - Combustion I

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Open to Engineering MS, Aerospace Engineering MS, and Mechanical Engineering MS students only.
Fundamentals of combustion engineering: fuels; chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics; premixed and diffusion flames; ignition and extinction; Hugoniot curves; flammability and explosion limits; pollutant formation and control; applications in spark-, and charged-ignition internal combustion engines; gas-fired and oil-fired furnaces.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-Problems 3 hours).