UC Irvine Combustion Related Courses


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 110

Title: Combustion and Fuel Cell Systems
Description: Fundamentals of gaseous, liquid, and coal-fired combustion and fuel cell systems. Fuels, fuel-air mixing, aerodynamics, and combustion and fuel cell thermodynamics. Operating and design aspects of practical systems including engines, power generators, boilers, furnaces, and incinerators. Prerequisite: MAE115. (Design units: 2)

Level:
Undergraduate Upper Division
Combustion Focus: 5 weeks
Professor: Professor McDonell


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 112

Title: Propulsion
Description: Application of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to basic flow processes and cycle performance in propulsion systems: gas turbines, ramjets, scramjets, and rockets.  Prerequisite: MAE130B. (Design units: 1)

Level:
Undergraduate Upper Division
Combustion Focus: 5 weeks
Professor: Professor Sirignano


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 115

Title: Applied Engineering Thermodynamics
Description: Application of thermodynamic principles to compressible and incompressible processes representative of practical engineering problems--power cycles, refrigeration cycles, multicomponent mixtures, air conditioning systems, combustion and compressible flow. Design of a thermodynamic process. Prerequisite: MAE91. (Design units: 1)

Level:
Undergraduate Upper Division
Combustion Focus: 1 week
Professor: Professor Brouwer


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 118/218

Title: Sustainable Energy Systems
Description: Basic principles, design, and operation of sustainable energy systems including wind, solar photo-voltaic and thermal, hydroelectric, geothermal, oceanic, biomass combustion, advanced coal, and next generation nuclear. Includes power generation, storage, and transmission for stationary power generation. Prerequisite: MAE115. (Design units: 1)

Level:
Undergraduate Upper Division / Graduate
Combustion Focus: 2 weeks
Professor: Professor Muzio


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 164

Title: Air Pollution and Control
Description: Sources, dispersion, and effects of air pollutants. Topics include emission factors, emission inventory, air pollution, meteorology, air chemistry, air quality modeling, impact assessment, source and ambient monitoring, regional control strategies. Prerequisite: MAE91, MAE 130A/CEE 170. (Design units: 2)

Level:
Undergraduate Upper Division
Combustion Focus: 3 weeks
Professor: Professor Dabdub


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 210

Title: Advanced Fundamentals of Combustion
Description: Premixed, non-premixed, and heterogeneous reactions, with emphasis on kinetics, thermal ignition, turbulent flame propagation, detonations, explosions, flammability limits, diffusion flame, quenching, flame stabilization, and particle and spray combustion. Not offered every year. Prerequisite: MAE 224 or MAE 230B.

Level:
Graduate
Combustion Focus: 10 weeks
Professor: Professors Sirignano


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 215

Title: Advanced Combustion Technology
Description: Pollutant formation and experimental methods. Formation of gaseous pollutants and soot; transformation and emission of fuel contaminants in gas, liquid, and solid fuel combustion; methods employed to measure velocity, turbulence intensity, temperature, composition, particle size; methods to visualize reacting flows.  Prerequisite: MAE200A and MAE 230A or MAE270A.

Level:
Graduate
Combustion Focus: 9 weeks
Professor: Professor McDonell


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 238

Title: Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Description: Concepts and techniques for measurement of fluid motion. Quantitative and qualitative flow visualization. Flow facilities, shadowgraph, schlieren, interferometer, thermal anemometer. Laser diagnostics, fluorescence, Rayleigh, Raman, Mie scattering. Laser-Doppler, particle-image, and image- correlation velocimetry. Three- and four-dimensional digital imaging.  Prerequisite: MAE 230A and MAE 230B.

Level:
Graduate
Combustion Focus: varies
Professor: Professor LaRue


Departments: Chemistry and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 260

Title: Energy and Environmental Conflict
Description: Examination of current issues related to the atmosphere, including energy usage; toxicology; effects on humans, forest, plants, and ecosystems; particulate matter (PM10); combustion; modeling, and meteorology; airborne toxic chemicals and risk assessment; application of science to development of public policies. Prerequisite: One course selected from Chemistry 245, Earth System Science 202, Engineering MAE164, Engineering MAE261, or consent of instructor. Same as Chemistry 241. Not offered every year.

Level:
Graduate
Combustion Focus: 2 week
Professor: Professors Brouwer / Finlayson-Pitts


Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Course No: MAE 284
Title: Fundamentals of Experimental Design
Description: Fundamentals and principles of statistical experimental design and analysis. Emphasis addresses understanding and use of designed experiments, response surfaces, linear regression modeling, process optimization, and development of links between empirical and theoretical models.

Level:
Graduate
Combustion Focus: 10 weeks
Professor: Professor McDonell



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