The Effect of Reactant Consumption in Nonsteady Explosion Theory

Abstract

The effect of reactant consumption in nonsteady explosion theory is investigated by an exact numerical method and an approximate analytical treatment. Results are presented for the critical conditions and the ignition delay for supercritical conditions. The approximate analysis gives ignition delays in good agreement with the numerical solution, but the critical conditions are not obtained as accurately as in an alternative analysis due to Thomas. A comparison of temperature-time histories computed by the exact numerical method with experiments reported by Akita showed satisfactory agreement and indicated that reactant consumption was significant for wood.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0262356

Entities

People

  • William Squire

Organizations

  • Southwest Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Contracts
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fires
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ignition
  • Ignition Lag
  • Integral Equations
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Partial Differential Equations

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.