Effect of reactant consumption on the induction period and critical condition for a thermal explosion
- 4 July 1961
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 262 (1309) , 192-206
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1961.0112
Abstract
An approximate theoretical analysis is given of a thermal explosion or ignition. The treatment leads to analytic expressions for the effect of reactant consumption on the critical explosion parameter and the induction period for a theoretical model, where spatial variation of temperature is treated by considering only the maximum temperature at the centre of the reacting material and an effective transfer coefficient between the centre and the environment. The results are found to agree satisfactorily with detailed numerical solutions by Rice, Allen & Campbell (1935) and Todes & Melentiev (1939, 1940) where these are applicable. The effect of reactant consumption on the critical value of the explosion parameter is shown to be more than twice that calculated by Frank-Kamenetskii (1946).Keywords
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