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On the explosion of chain-thermal reactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

R. O. Ayeni
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A chain reaction of oxygen (reactant) and hydrogen (active intermediary) with mtrosyl chloride (sensitizer) as a catalyst may be modelled mathematically as a non-isothermal reaction. In this paper we present an asymptotic analysis of a spatially homogeneous model of a non-isothermal branched-chain reaction. Of particular interest is the so-called explosion time and we provide an upper bound for it as a function of the activation energy which can vary over all positive values. We also establish a bound on the temperature when the activation energy is finite.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1982 , pp. 194 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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