METAL PARTICLE COMBUSTION PROGRESS REPORT, 1 JULY 1965-1 MAY 1967

Abstract

The report includes: a summary of experimental studies on the xenon flash-initiated combustion of single particles of aluminum, boron, titanium and zirconium in air, oxygen, carbon dioxide and various oxygen-argon mixtures at pressures from 1-4.5 atmospheres, and a summary of aluminum and boron particle combustion in various gas burner flames; development and application of an analytical droplet burning model to describe boron particle combustion; and a discussion of metal particle fragmentation mechanisms including definition of some necessary conditions for fragmentation as well as a description of the most probable mechanism. The report concludes with a brief summary section describing the status of the metal combustion problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0839526

Entities

People

  • J. L. Prentice

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Cameras
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Oxide Films
  • Photographs
  • Thermodynamics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.