R.I.366

PLANE LAMINAR FLAMES WITH
MULTICOMPONENT TRANSPORT AND
COMPLEX CHEMISTRY


Vincent GIOVANGIGLI
CMAP-CNRS
Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
giovangi@cmapx.polytechnique.fr

We consider 
plane laminar
flames with multicomponent transport and complex chemistry.
The governing equations are derived from the kinetic theory of
gases by using the
classical isobaric approximation.
An arbitrary number of reversible chemical reactions 
and  temperature  dependent species  specific heats
are considered in the model.
The most general form for multicomponent transport  
fluxes given by the kinetic theory
is also taken into account.
Upon first considering a bounded domain and then  letting  the size of the 
domain to go to infinity,
we obtain an existence theorem.
We also establish that the natural entropy production norm associated with 
multicomponent diffusion is a solution--weighted norm.

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