Most practical combustion devices operate under turbulent
conditions. The study is challenging because it couples two very
difficult areas: turbulence and chemical kinetics. Under certain
situations the turbulent flame can be considered to consist of
collections of laminar flamelets and the analysis can be
significantly simplified. We are currently formulating turbulent
flame theories in which the dynamic behavior of such laminar
flamelets in the highly strained turbulent flow field is
realistically described.