AME 514, Fall 2008

Getting copies of articles cited in the lecture notes (and other related or interesting papers, or even property data, for example thermal diffusivity):

1. Many of the papers cited in the lecture notes are available in the folders containing the lecture notes themselves.

2. You can search for them on-line using your favorite search engine, e.g. Google. Remember, in today’s world search is your friend!

3. USC subscribes to many on-line journals. You can access these via

http://zb5lh7ed7a.search.serialssolutions.com/

4. Also, you can search for any imaginable author and subject via the ISI web of knowledge:

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/

But these are paid services that USC subscribes to and so are only available from USC IP addresses. You can access these services from home, however, you need to access these services through USC’s remote access portal:

http://libproxy.usc.edu/login

5. Finally, if USC does not have a subscription to a journal that you're looking for, you can ask the USC libraries to find a copy of the article you're looking for in some other library with which USC has a loan agreement. If they can find the article, they will have the host library scan a copy of it and they will send it to you as a .pdf. This process is reported to be very efficient; they get you the article within a couple of days.

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Course description

Instructor: Prof. Paul Ronney, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC

Office: OHE 430J

Phone: (213) 740-0490

Email: ronney@usc.edu

Website: http://ronney.usc.edu

Grader: To be arranged

Purpose: The objective of the course is to enable students to apply fundamental understanding gained in AME 513 (Principles of Combustion) to new and rapidly evolving science and technology areas including microscale reacting flows, microgravity combustion, supersonic and hypersonic propulsion, and turbulent combustion.

Textbook: None required; course will be taught from lecture notes and handouts. However, a good general combustion textbook is S. R. Turns, An Introduction to Combustion:

http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=007235044X)

Schedule: 1 lecture per week, 6:30 – 9:10 pm, OHE 132.

Midterm exams: None

Final exam date: Monday, December 11, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, VKC 102,

Distance learning: Lectures and course credit are also available through the USC Distance Education Network

Credit: 3 units

Prerequisite: AME 513 (Principles of Combustion) or equivalent or permission of instructor

Grading: 5 homework assignments (60%), final exam (40%)

Further information: http://ronney.usc.edu/AME514F08/

Course outline

1) Advanced fundamental topics (3 lectures)

i) Flame ignition, extinction, flammability, stabilization

ii) Emissions formation and remediation

2) Microscale reacting flows and power generation (3 lectures)

i) Scaling considerations

ii) Microscale internal combustion engines

iii) Microscale gas turbine and rocket propulsion

iv) Thermoelectrics

v) Fuel cells – PEM, solid oxide

vi) Thermal transpiration

3) Turbulent combustion (3 lectures)

i) Premixed-gas flames

ii) Non premixed flames

iii) Edge flames

4) Advanced propulsion systems (3 lectures)

i) Hypersonic propulsion

ii) Pulse detonation engines

iii) Plasma – flame interactions

5) Emerging technologies in reacting flows (3 lectures)

i) Applications of combustion (aka “chemically reacting flow”) knowledge to other fields

(1) Biofilms & microbial fuel cells

(2) Frontal polymerization

(3) Inertial confinement fusion

(4) Astrophysical combustion

ii) New research fields

(1) HCCI engines

(2) Plasma assisted combustion

(3) Microbial fuel cells

iii) Current needs in combustion research

5 homework sets will be assigned (1 per section).