Fundamentals of Combustion

By Prof. V. Raghavan | IIT Madras

Learners enrolled: 286 | Exam registration: 10

ABOUT THE COURSE :
To enable students to apply the knowledge of thermodynamics to combustion. To emphasize the basics of fuels, stoichiometry, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, mass transfer, and different types of combustion process. To explain the mathematics involved in transport processes of a reactive flow, simplifications involved and the parameters affecting different types of combustion processes.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG, PG, MS and PhD students doing research in Combustion and related areas

INDUSTRIES SUPPORT : TATA steels, Thermax, BHEL

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Mechanical Engineering Computational Thermo Fluids Propulsion
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	27 Jan 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	14 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	04 May 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Week 1:Fuels and their properties

Week 2:Review of basic thermodynamics of ideal gas mixtures

Week 3: Stoichiometry

Week 4:First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics applied to combustion; Heat, temperature and composition of products in equilibrium

Week 5:Mass transfer basics

Week 6:Fundamentals of combustion kinetics

Week 7: Governing equations for a reacting flow

Week 8:General characteristics of combustion flame and detonation

Week 9:Laminar flame propagation-Flammability limits and quenching of laminar flames-Ignition-Flame stabilization

Week 10:Gas jets and combustion of gaseous fuel jets

Week 11: Turbulent premixed and non-premixed flames

Week 12:Droplet evaporation and combustion

Week 13:Combustion of a carbon particle.

Books and references

1. S. R. Turns, An Introduction to Combustion Concepts and Applications, McGraw Hill, 2010

2. F. A. Williams, Combustion Theory, ABP

3. I. Glassman, Combustion, Academic Press

4. K. Kuo, Principles of Combustion, John Wiley

Instructor bio

Prof. V. Raghavan

IIT Madras

Prof. V. Raghavan obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India. He did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA He joined IITM in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently working as a professor. He teaches courses such as Thermodynamics, Applied Thermal Engineering, Fundamentals of Combustion, Theory of Fire Propagation, Combustion Technology, etc. His areas of research include evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, laminar flames, fire modeling, CFD for reacting flows, flame spread and liquid fuel pool combustion, and coal gasification.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: May 4, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team