Practical problems in turbulent reacting flows

This chapter discusses the practical problems of turbulent combustion which may be solved, or at least more fully understood, by consideration of the theory of turbulent reacting flows and provides perspective on our current ability to predict the properties of such combustion. The quantities which characterize the turbulence in various practical devices involving turbulent combustion are discussed first. Then cases of quasi-steady flows such as arise in the combustors of gas turbines are considered with emphasis on comparison of the predictions based on current methods of analysis with experimental data. There follows a similar discussion of quasi-periodic flows such as arise in the internal combustion engine. (orig.)