NPTEL : NOC:Fundamentals of Combustion (Mechanical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. V. Raghavan


Lecture 1 - Fuel and their properties - Part 1

Lecture 2 - Fuel and their properties - Part 2 - Gaseous and Liquid fuels

Lecture 3 - Fuel and their properties - Part 3 - Liquid and Solid fuels

Lecture 4 - Review of basic thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures - Part 1

Lecture 5 - Review of basic thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures - Part 2

Lecture 6 - Stoichiometry - Part 1

Lecture 7 - Stoichiometry - Part 2 - Worked Examples

Lecture 8 - Stoichiometry - Part 3 - Worked Examples (Continued...)

Lecture 9 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 1 - Heat Calculation

Lecture 10 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 2 - Enthalpy Calculation

Lecture 11 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 3 - Calculation of flame temperature

Lecture 12 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 4 - Chemical equilibrium

Lecture 13 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 5 - Chemical equilibrium (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 6 - Worked examples

Lecture 15 - First law and Second law of thermodynamics applied to combustion - Part 7 - Worked examples (Continued...)

Lecture 16 - Mass transfer basics - Part 1 - Fundamentals

Lecture 17 - Mass transfer basics - Part 2 - Calculation of diffusion velocity

Lecture 18 - Mass transfer basics - Part 3 - Steady evaporation (The Stefan Problem)

Lecture 19 - Mass transfer basics - Part 4 - Steady evaporation of liquid droplet and Worked examples

Lecture 20 - Fundamentals of combustion kinetics - Part 1 - Global and elementary reactions

Lecture 21 - Fundamentals of combustion kinetics - Part 2 - Reaction rates and equilibrium constant

Lecture 22 - Fundamentals of combustion kinetics - Part 3 - Steady state and partial equilibrium approximation

Lecture 23 - Fundamentals of combustion kinetics - Part 4 - Worked examples

Lecture 24 - Governing equations for reacting flow - Part 1 - Continuity, momentum and species conservation equations

Lecture 25 - Governing equations for reacting flow - Part 2 - The energy equation

Lecture 26 - Governing equations for reacting flow - Part 3 - Estimation of thermo-physical properties and control of combustion phenomena

Lecture 27 - Governing equations for reacting flow - Part 4 - Control of combustion phenomena and simplified chemically reacting system

Lecture 28 - Governing equations for reacting flow - Part 5 - Conserved scalars and mixture fraction approach

Lecture 29 - Characteristics of combustion flame and detonation - Part 1

Lecture 30 - Characteristics of combustion flame and detonation - Part 2

Lecture 31 - Characteristics of combustion flame and detonation - Part 3 - Rankine-Hugoniot relation

Lecture 32 - Characteristics of combustion flame and detonation - Part 4 - Estimation of detonation velocity and Worked examples

Lecture 33 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 1 - Laminar flame propagation

Lecture 34 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 2 - Laminar flame speed variation and Structure of premixed flames

Lecture 35 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 3 - Flammability limits and Premixed flame theory

Lecture 36 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 4 - Estimation of laminar flame speed

Lecture 37 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 5 - Ignition of premixed mixture (Semenov's Analysis)

Lecture 38 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 6 - Piloted ignition and Flame quenching

Lecture 39 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 7 - Premixed flame stability

Lecture 40 - Laminar Premixed Flames - Part 8 - Stability Maps and Worked examples

Lecture 41 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 1 - Theory of gas jets

Lecture 42 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 2 - Analysis of gas jets and jet diffusion flames

Lecture 43 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 3 - Diffusion flame characteristics and flame structure

Lecture 44 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 4 - Diffusion flame structure and Flame regimes

Lecture 45 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 5 - Diffusion flame regimes and Flame height correlations

Lecture 46 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 6 - Diffusion flame control

Lecture 47 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 7 - Diffusion flame configurations (coflow, crossflow and opposed flow flames)

Lecture 48 - Laminar Diffusion Flames - Part 8 - Diffusion flame stability and Worked examples

Lecture 49 - Turbulent Flames - Part 1 - Characteristics of turbulence

Lecture 50 - Turbulent Flames - Part 2 - Turbulent length scales and turbulent stresses

Lecture 51 - Turbulent Flames - Part 3 - Axisymmetric turbulent jet

Lecture 52 - Turbulent Flames - Part 4 - Turbulent premixed flames and flame regimes

Lecture 53 - Turbulent Flames - Part 5 - Turbulent diffusion flames

Lecture 54 - Droplet evaporation and combustion - Part 1 - Steady evaporation of liquid droplet

Lecture 55 - Droplet evaporation and combustion - Part 2 - Equilibrium under steady evaporation of liquid droplet and droplet combustion

Lecture 56 - Droplet evaporation and combustion - Part 3 - Droplet combustion (simplified analysis)

Lecture 57 - Droplet evaporation and combustion - Part 4 - Species and temperature profiles

Lecture 58 - Droplet evaporation and combustion - Part 5 - Evaluation of mass burning rate and worked examples

Lecture 59 - Combustion of carbon particle - Part 1 - Coal combustion

Lecture 60 - Combustion of carbon particle - Part 2 - One film model

Lecture 61 - Combustion of carbon particle - Part 3 - Two film model and worked examples