Plane Laminar Flames with Multicomponent Transport and Complex Chemistry

We consider plane laminar ames 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 speciic heats are considered in the model. The most general form for multicomponent transport uxes given by the kinetic theory is also taken into account. Upon rst considering a bounded domain and then letting the size of the domain to go to innnity, we obtain an existence theorem. We also establish that the natural entropy production norm associated with multicomponent diiusion is a solution{weighted norm.