Citation

Balakrishnan E, Nelson MI, Wake GC. Math. Comput. Model. 1999; 30(11-12): 177-195.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0895-7177(99)00207-1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The critical storage problem for a self-heating combustible material exposed to an external radiative heat source is investigated. The reaction kinetics are denied in terms of a characteristic temperature and an activation energy, linking small-scale experimental techniques to mediumscale flarmmability tests. The model is nondimensionalised in such a way that material properties of fundamental interest are retained as distinct continuation parameters.