An Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)

by Stephen R. Turns and Turns

Book Overview

Introduction to Combustion is the leading combustion textbook for undergraduate and graduate students because of its easy-to-understand analyses of basic combustion concepts and its introduction of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072300965
• ISBN13: 9780072300963
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: William C Brown Pub
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book, late delivery

This is a fantastic book. Highly recommended. However, didn't receive the book on time. The delivery took way too long and somewhat it was sent to the wrong address. It was really hard to get customer service support on this matter.

Excellent Text

Simply excellent introductory text of the subject. Turns is an excellent educator and author and makes the introduction to the subject as easy as possible. I used it as a grad student at Purdue and loved it.

Excellent Introduction to Combustion

I became acquainted with this book when it was used as one of several references for a graduate level mechanical engineering course in combustion. The book does an excellent job of explaining chemical equilibrium and chemical kinetics - particularly if the reader has very little previous exposure to these topics. I would have liked to see more solved example problems but this is probably a desire of any student when using an engineering text. This book is well written and presents much complex material for the non-chemist in a clear and concise manner. Those working with internal combustion engines will find the materials on pollutant formation (Chapter 15) very useful, including the 78 end of chapter references. -John

An Introduction to Combustion : Concepts and Applications

An excellent introductory book on combustion. Suitable for an undergraduate course or for self-study. Fundamental concepts are clearly explained with many calculation examples and problems to solve. The material is presented in a very attractive and easy to read way. Also, has numerous references to webpages with useful information, plus computer programmes to solve basic problems, like equilibrium composition. The overall approach is to provide tools to make practical calculations using computational tools.

Steve Turns makes Combustion easy

I think Steve has abilities to convey scientific ideas in a simple, easy to understand manner. His interaction with industrial clients, industrial applications and combustion equipment has given him an insight for explaining basics as applied to the real world. He also understands utilities of various combustion properties, parameters and correlations. He also knows how you can apply it for the maximim benefit for a given process. I recommend this book to any practicing engineer in the combustion field. Steve is a great communicator and a friend of combustion industry. At Air Liquide I have used this book to design burners, flames and combustion processes for steel, glass, chemical and process industries. Sincerely, Dr. Mike Joshi, Combustion Scientist, Air Liquide, Chicago Research Center, Countryside, IL 60525