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| | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Fuels Combustion Research |
 | | Today, isolated spherically symmetric droplet combustion along, with one dimensional, laminar premixed and diffusion flames, all represent fundamental combustion venues that can be time-dependently, computationally modeled (even time dependently) with essentially no constraints on the functional property dependence or level of descriptive detail for phase transformation, convection, diffusion, chemistry and heat transfer. |
 | | The combustion of a single isolated droplets, even in initially quiescent gases, typically generates sufficient heat to cause natural convective gas motions relative to the drop surface, thus destroying the spherical symmetry of the experiment. |
 | | In droplet combustion, (even in the spherically symmetric case) both molecular diffusion and bulk convection, termed Stephan flow, (produced as a result of phase changes at the droplet surface) are important phenomena. |
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