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COMBUSTION AND FLAME THE JOURNAL OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE VOLUME 115 NUMBERS 1/2 OCTOBER 1998 Contents PETER GLARBORG, MARIA U. ALZUETA, KIM DAM-JOHANSEN (Lyngby, Denmark), and JAMES A. MILLER (Livermore. CA) Kinetic Modeling of Hydrocarbon/ Nitric Oxide Interactions in a Flow Reactor P. ROTH. T. ECKHARDT, B. FRANZ. and J. PATSCHULL (Duisburg, Germany) H,O,-Assisted Regeneration of Diesel Particulate Traps at Typical Exhaust Gas Temperatures................. 2 C. J. MONTGOMERY, A. M. KHOKHLOV, and E. S$. ORAN (Washington, DC) The Effect of Mixing Irregularities on Mixed-Region Critical Length for Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition .... YUNG-CHENG CHEN, CHIA-CHI CHANG, KUO-LONG PAN, and JING-TANG YANG (Taiwan, Republic of China) Flame Lift-off and Stabilization Mechanisms of Nonpremixed Jet Flames on a Bluff-body Burner ...............- : VREG YOUSEFIAN (Carlisle. MA) A Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium Thermochemistry Algorithm for Complex Reacting Systems ......... CHARLES S.MCENALLY and LISA D. PFEFFERLE (New Haven, CT) Species and Soot Concentration Measurements in a Methane/Air Nonpremixed Flame Doped With C4 Hydrocarbons ANDRZEJ SOBIESIAK (Ontario, Canada), SHAHRZAD RAHBAR (Ontario, Canada), and HENRY A. BECKER (Ontario, Canada) Performance Characteristics of the Novel Low-NO, CGRI Burner For Use with High Air Preheat D. BRADLEY, R. A. HICKS, M. LAWES, C. G. W. SHEPPARD, and R. WOOLLEY (Hampshire, England) The Measurement of Laminar Burning Velocities and Markstein Numbers for Iso-octane—Air and Iso-octane- n-Heptane—Air Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures in an Explosion Bomb J. DAOU and B. ROGG (Bochum, Germany) Convective Burning of Gaseous Fuel Pockets and Supercritical Droplets A. M. LENTATI and H. K. CHELLIAH (Charlottesville, VA) Dynamics of Water Droplets in a Counterflow Field and their Effect on Flame Extinction CONSTANTIN A. PETROV and AHMED F. GHONIEM (Cambridge, MA) Dynamics and Structure of Interacting Nonpremixed Flames F. XU, K.-C. LIN and G. M. FAETH (Ann Arbor, M1) Soot Formation in Laminar Premixed Methane/Oxygen Flames at Atmospheric Pressure W. P. JONES and M. KAKHI (London, England) Pdf Modeling of Finite-rate Chemistry Effects in Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flames. ...............-0002055 210 (continued on next page) COMBUSTION AND FLAME THE JOURNAL OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE VOLUME 115 NUMBERS 1/2 OCTOBER 1998 Contents PETER GLARBORG, MARIA U. ALZUETA, KIM DAM-JOHANSEN (Lyngby, Denmark), and JAMES A. MILLER (Livermore. CA) Kinetic Modeling of Hydrocarbon/ Nitric Oxide Interactions in a Flow Reactor P. ROTH. T. ECKHARDT, B. FRANZ. and J. PATSCHULL (Duisburg, Germany) H,O,-Assisted Regeneration of Diesel Particulate Traps at Typical Exhaust Gas Temperatures................. 2 C. J. MONTGOMERY, A. M. KHOKHLOV, and E. S$. ORAN (Washington, DC) The Effect of Mixing Irregularities on Mixed-Region Critical Length for Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition .... YUNG-CHENG CHEN, CHIA-CHI CHANG, KUO-LONG PAN, and JING-TANG YANG (Taiwan, Republic of China) Flame Lift-off and Stabilization Mechanisms of Nonpremixed Jet Flames on a Bluff-body Burner ...............- : VREG YOUSEFIAN (Carlisle. MA) A Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium Thermochemistry Algorithm for Complex Reacting Systems ......... CHARLES S.MCENALLY and LISA D. PFEFFERLE (New Haven, CT) Species and Soot Concentration Measurements in a Methane/Air Nonpremixed Flame Doped With C4 Hydrocarbons ANDRZEJ SOBIESIAK (Ontario, Canada), SHAHRZAD RAHBAR (Ontario, Canada), and HENRY A. BECKER (Ontario, Canada) Performance Characteristics of the Novel Low-NO, CGRI Burner For Use with High Air Preheat D. BRADLEY, R. A. HICKS, M. LAWES, C. G. W. SHEPPARD, and R. WOOLLEY (Hampshire, England) The Measurement of Laminar Burning Velocities and Markstein Numbers for Iso-octane—Air and Iso-octane- n-Heptane—Air Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures in an Explosion Bomb J. DAOU and B. ROGG (Bochum, Germany) Convective Burning of Gaseous Fuel Pockets and Supercritical Droplets A. M. LENTATI and H. K. CHELLIAH (Charlottesville, VA) Dynamics of Water Droplets in a Counterflow Field and their Effect on Flame Extinction CONSTANTIN A. PETROV and AHMED F. GHONIEM (Cambridge, MA) Dynamics and Structure of Interacting Nonpremixed Flames F. XU, K.-C. LIN and G. M. FAETH (Ann Arbor, M1) Soot Formation in Laminar Premixed Methane/Oxygen Flames at Atmospheric Pressure W. P. JONES and M. KAKHI (London, England) Pdf Modeling of Finite-rate Chemistry Effects in Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flames. ...............-0002055 210 (continued on next page) E. J. P. ZEGERS and E. M. FISHER (Ithaca, NY) Gas-Phase Pyrolysis of Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate C. J. BUTLER and A. N. HAYHURST (Cambridge, England) Measurements of the Concentrations of Free Hydrogen Atoms in Flames from Observations of lons: Correlation of Burning Velocities with Concentrations of Free Hydrogen Atoms S. DE IULIIS, M. BARBINI, S. BENECCHI, F. CIGNOLI, and G. ZIZAK (Milan, Italy) Determination of the Soot Volume Fraction in an Ethylene Diffusion Flame by Multiwavelength Analysis of Soot Radiation PHILIP H. TAYLOR, SANTOSH SHANBHAG, and BARRY DELLINGER (Dayton, OH) Benzene Formation from the Flow Reactor Oxidation of Methyl -Butyl Ether CHEN L. SUN and MING Y. ZHANG (Nanjing, People’s Republic of China) Ignition of Coal Particles at High Pressure in a Thermogravimetric Analyzer H. HEPP and K. SIEGMANN (Ziirich, Switzerland) Mapping of Soot Particles in a Weakly Sooting Diffustion Flame by Aerosol Techniques ..................0.. 2 VOLUME 115 NUMBER 3 NOVEMBER 1998 Contents R. A. DOBBINS, R. A. FLETCHER (Providence, RI and Gaithersburg, MD), and H.-C. CHANG (Worcester, MA) The Evolution of Soot Precursor Particles in a Diffusion Flame C. H. SOHN, S. H. CHUNG, S. R. LEE, and J. S. KIM (Seoul, Korea) Structure and Acoustic-Pressure Response of Hydrogen—Oxygen Diffusion Flames at High Pressure D. T. VENIZELOS and R. C. SAUSA (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) Laser-Induced Fluorescence, Mass Spectrometric, and Modeling Studies of Neat and EE ss oie vn ear A a HEAS SM ORA CK RRTS ET ED ACTER A ADRS ON eed wdH RO Kee ae : YUXIU ZHU and SABURO YUASA (Tokyo, Japan) Effects of Oxygen Concentration on Combustion of Aluminum in Oxygen/Nitrogen Mixture Streams TOBIAS PLESSING, PETER TERHOEVEN, NORBERT PETERS (Aachen, Germany), and MOHY S. MANSOUR (Cairo, Egypt) An Experimental and Numerical Study of a Laminar Triple Flame STEPHEN HWANG, ALEXANDER S. MUKASYAN, and ARVIND VARMA (Notre Dame, IN) Mechanisms of Combustion Wave Propagation in Heterogencous Reaction Systems OLGA S. VAULINA, ANATOLI P. NEFEDOV, OLEG F. PETROV, ALEX A. SAMARIAN, and ALEXANDER W. CHERNYSCHEV (Moscow, Russia) Temperature Measurements of Optically Non-Gray Particles in High-Temperature Dusty Media............... 364 (continued on next page) ARVIND ATREYA and SANJAY AGRAWAL (Ann Arbor, MI) Effect of Radiative Heat Loss on Diffusion Flames in Quiescent Microgravity Atmosphere .............-...-- 372 JOEL DAOU (Madrid, Spain) Ignition and Combustion of Fuel Pockets Moving in an Oxidizing Atmosphere... ... 2... 6-062 eee eee eee eee R. C. ALDREDGE, V. VAEZI (Davis. CA), and P. D. RONNEY (Los Angeles, CA) Premixed-Flame Propagation in Turbulent Taylor—Couette Flow KULDEEP PRASAD (Washington, DC), RICHARD A. YETTER (Princeton, NJ), and MITCHELL D. SMOOKE (New Haven, CT) An Eigenvalue Method for Computing the Burning Rates of HMX Propellants P. E. GONGWER and T. B. BRILL (Newark, DE) Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials 73: The Identity and Temperature Dependence of “Minor” Products From Flash-Heated RDX R. KNYSTAUTAS, J.H.S. LEE (Montreal, Canada), J. E.S HEPHERD (Pasadena, CA), ¢ A. TEODORCZYK (Warszawa, Poland) Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation in Benzene—Air Mixtures Brief Communication A. MITROVIC and T.-W. LEE (Tempe, AZ) Soot Formation Characteristics of Laminar Partially Premixed Flames VOLUME 115 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 1998 Contents M. W. RENFRO, S. D. PACK, G. B. KING, and N. M. LAURENDEAU (West Lafayette, IN) Hydroxyl Time-Series Measurements in Laminar and Moderately Turbulent Methane/Air Diffusion Flames ANUJ BHARGAVA and PHILLIP R. WESTMORELAND (Amherst, MA) MBMS Analysis of a Fuel-Lean Ethylene Flame K.-C. LIN and G. M. FAETH (Ann Arbor, MI) Structure of Laminar Permanently Blue, Opposed-Jet Ethylene-Fueled Diffusion Flames JOHN D. GARMAN and DEREK DUNN-RANKIN (Irvine, CA) Spatial Averaging Effects in CARS Thermometry of a Nonpremixed Flame S$. SUBRAMANIAM and S. B. POPE (Ithaca, NY) A Mixing Model for Turbulent Reactive Flows based on Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees D. BRADLEY, P. H. GASKELL, X. J. GU, M. LAWES, and M. J. SCOTT (Leeds, England) Premixed Turbulent Flame Instability and NO Formation in a Lean-Burn Swirl Burner...................--. 515 (continued on next page) M. I. HASSAN, K. T. AUNG, and G. M. FAETH (Ann Arbor, MI) Measured and Predicted Properties of Laminar Premixed Methane/Air Flames at Various Pressures . . V. BABUSHOK, W. TSANG, G. T. LINTERIS, and D. REINELT (Gaithersburg, MD) Chemical Limits to Flame Inhibition Bricf Communication PHILIP H. TAYLOR, LI CHENG, and BARRY DELLINGER (Dayton, OH) The Influence of Nitric Oxide on the Oxidation of Methanol and Ethanol . . Author Index Subject Index Volume Contents