Combustion Physics: Flames, Detonations, Explosions, Astrophysical Combustion and Inertial Confinement Fusion [Paperback]

This book provides the latest achievements and original research work in physics of combustion processes and application of the methods developed in combustion physics for astrophysical problems of stars burning, supernovae explosions and a confined thermonuclear fusion. All the materials in the book are presented in a concise and easily accessible way, but at the same time provides a deep physical inside in the phenomena considered. It is an effective theoretical course with the direct practical implications in engineering fields of engines development, energy production, safety issues inherent to terrestrial combustion, as well as in thermonuclear combustion in the inertial fusion. This book is aimed at university students, Ph.D. students and engineers, as well as professionals in combustion, energy-related research, astrophysics and researchers in neighboring fields.Combustion Chemistry.- Self-Accelerating Reactions. Explosions.- Laminar Flames.- Hydrodynamics of Premixed Flames.- Flame Instabilities.- Flame Acoustic Interaction. Thermoacoustic and Parametric and Instabilities.- Interaction of Flames and Weak Shocks.

Michael A. (Mikhail) Liberman is a professor of theoretical physics at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. His scientific interests span from plasma physics to quantum coherence, BoseEinstein condensation of excitons, combustion theory and astrophysics.

A graduate of Moscow State University, Liberman obtained his Ph.D. from the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, commencing his career as a theoretical physicist with the guidance from legendary scientists, Yakov Zeldovich and Ilia Lifshits at the L. Landau theoretical department of the famous  P. L. Kapitza  Institute for Physical Problems. During that period, he was awarded his second doctorate degree (habilitation) at the G. I.&lã$