1. Discuss the fundamental and characteristic physical and chemical features of flames and combustion processes.
2. Perform chemical stoichiometric calculations of reactant and product compositions, and compute the adiabatic flame temperature and equilibrium composition of major combustion products.
3. Determine the approximate rate of a combustion reaction from global kinetic data, and estimate the rate of reactions in batch and well-stirred chemical reactors.
4. Describe the major elementary reactions and reaction mechanisms of hydrogen and hydrocarbon combustion.
5. Discuss the important terms in the equations of mass, momentum, energy and species conservation, as applied to combustion processes.
6. Explain the physical and chemical mechanism of laminar flame propagation, ignition and flammability limits, and estimate the flame velocity and thickness.
7. Calculate the detonation velocity and describe the major features of the detonation and deflagration modes of premixed combustion.
8. Apply the concept of mixture fraction to analyze one-dimensional diffusion flames.
9. Describe the features of laminar and turbulent non-premixed jet flames, and the role of turbulence in premixed and non-premixed combustion processes.
10. Calculate the rate of liquid droplet and solid fuel combustion based on mass diffusion analysis.
11. Apply knowledge of fundamental combustion processes to describe fires, and practical combustion devices, including internal combustion engines, gas turbines, furnaces, and rockets.
12. Describe the types of pollutants generated in typical combustion processes and the available control techniques, and estimate emissions rates in standard reporting units.