From Molecular Dynamics to Combustion Chemistry

Combustion science in general and combustion chemistry in particular, have seen a resurgence of interest in recent years due to the importance of energy and pollution problems in modern society. Leading authorities in combustion science and related fields have contributed to this volume which reviews elementary reactions in combustion systems, dynamics of molecules, wave propagation in chemical reactions, chemistry of fuel rich combustion and modelling and simulation of combustion processes involving detailed chemistry and new developments in laser diagnostics.

• The Dynamics of H₂ Elimination from Ethylene (A Stolow, B A Balko, E F Cromwell, J Zhang & Y T Lee)
• Dynamics of Evaporation of Csl Molecules from Individual [Cs(Csl)ₙ]⁺ Clusters (H J Hwang & M A El-Sayed)
• Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Relaxation (IVR) in Large Molecules: Homogeneous IVR Lifetimes and the Mechanism of Energy Relaxation (K K Lehmann, B H Pate & G Scoles)
• Molecular Beam Studies of the Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Processes (V Aquilanti & G G Volpi)
• Propagating Waves of Chemical Reaction (P Gray & D Needham)
• From Molecular Mechanics to Combustion Phenomena: A Systematic Determination of Critical Parameters and Variables (H Rabitz)
• Critical Transitions in Reacting Systems through Parametric Sensitivity (M Morbidelli & H Wu)
• Modelling Complex Reaction Systems (G Astarita & R Ocone)
• Elementary Reactions in Combustion Processes (M J Pilling)
• Hydrogen Abstraction Reactions: Analogy Rules for the Prediction of Kinetic Parameters (E Ranzi, M Dente, T Faravelli & G Pennati)
• and other papers