In this paper we investigate the properties and linear stability of travelling premixed combustion waves and the formation of pulsating combustion waves in a model with two-step chain-branching reaction mechanism. These calculations are undertaken in the adiabatic limit, in one spatial dimension and for the case of arbitrary Lewis numbers for fuel and radicals. It is shown that the Lewis number...

In this article, the in situ adaptive tabulation (ISAT) procedure, originally developed [Pope, S. (1997). Computationally efficient implementation of combustion chemistry using in situ adaptive tabulation. Combustion Theory and Modeling, 1, 41–63] for the efficient computation of homogeneous reactions in chemically reacting flows, is adapted for the efficient computation of heterogeneous surfac...

-The role which low-temperature catalytic combustion should play in the future hydrogen energy system is discussed in comparison with those of conventional flame-type combustion and fuel cells. A hybrid of catalytic and flame combustion is also referred to in the comparison. Screening of catalyst materials proved that several inexpensive oxides of the 3d transition metals were active at interme...