论燃烧学发展的几个里程碑

On Some Milestones in the Development of Combustion Theory

从19世纪开始,燃烧学的发展先后经历了燃烧热力学,燃烧反应动力学,燃烧物理学和反应流体力学等阶段。原来的燃烧理论只能定性地用于工程设计中。从20世纪70年代左右开始,由于大型数字计算机的产生和计算流体力学的出现,燃烧学发展到燃烧的数值模拟,先后出现了雷诺平均模拟、大涡模拟和直接数值模拟,可以把燃烧理论定量地用于燃烧装置的设计中。本文对燃烧学发展的几个里程碑进行了回顾,希望能和燃烧界同行们进行交流。

Since the beginning of 19~(th)century,the combustion theory was developed through different stages,i.e.,combustion thermodynamics,combustion reaction kinetics,combustion physics and reacting fluid dynamics,etc.Originally,the combustion theory was only qualitatively applied in engineering design.Starting from the 70′s of 20~(th)century due to the occurrence of large-size digital computers and the computational fluid dynamics,the combustion theory was developed to numerical simulation of combustion,which included Reynolds-averaged modeling,large-eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation,and may be quantitatively used in the design of combustion facilities.In this paper,a review is given for these milestones in the development of combustion theory,in order to exchange ideas with our colleagues in combustion community.