Fokion N. Egolfopoulo教授是美国南加州大学航空机械工程系全职教授，燃烧学知名学者。在火焰空气动力学和化学动力学、高速火箭推进、微重力燃烧、异相反应流体、燃料、详细反应流体数值模拟以及激光测试试验技术方面有很深的造诣，在燃烧基础研究上取得了很大的成果，他的研究受到NASA、美国自然基金委、美国空军、TRW、南加州煤气公司和加州能源委员会等单位的资助。现担任《Flame and Combustion》的北美主委等职务。

    

Laminar flame propagation constitutes one of the most fundamental combustion phenomena.  The speed of propagation of a flame that is steady, laminar, one-dimensional, planar, stretch-free, and adiabatic is defined as the laminar flame speed, is an intrinsic property of any reacting mixture and as such it depends only on the initial thermodynamic state of the mixture.  While the definition of the laminar flame speed appears to be rather straight forward given the geometric simplicity of the flame model, its theoretical, experimental, and numerical determination constitutes a major challenge to the combustion as well as the mathematics and physics communities.  In this lecture, and overview will be given on the significance and the determination of this very fundamental flame property and emphasis will be given on various factors can that could falsify its measured and/or predicted values.