In many substances, fuel and oxidisers are mixed before significant reactions take place at the

flame. These are termed as premixed flames.

In others, fuel and oxidisers are unmixed until combustion takes place at the flame. These are
diffusion flames. The entire range of flames is essentially either of these two or a combination.

Understanding how these flames behave at various conditions of temperature, pressure and levels
of oxidiser richness is important part of studying combustion. For this, we should understand the
chemical reaction behaviour, of a variety of fuel and oxidiser as a function of ambient conditions,
and then take some real-life examples and show their analysis in terms of basic features enables
prediction in actual situation.

one important element of this study is dimensionless analysis which is powerful and simple tool
to understand, explain and predict the behaviour of engineering systems including chemical
systems.

There are more powerful methods which involve the solution of conservation equation of mass,
momentum, energy and species, which lead to accurate predictions, of behaviour of chemical-
engineering systems.

Prerequisite of the course

Combustion in itself is a complex course which requires so much information from various other
courses to comprehend it well. following are the prerequisites of the course which must be
completed before we start studying the course of Advanced Combustion.

• Thermodynamics
• Elementary chemistry
• Fluid mechanics
• Heat and mass transfer
• Mathematics
o Integration
o Ordinary differential equation
o Partial differential equation
o Numerical methods
• Ability to work with numbers