Prediction of Criticality for Multidimensional Explosives
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Combustion Science and Technology
- Vol. 23 (5), 231-242
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00102208008952414
Abstract
The simple theory for the prediction of criticality in thermal ignition problems, which was based on a step-function reaction rate approximation and presented in a previous paper, is here applied to problems in which temperature is a function of more than one space variable. Boundary conditions corresponding to both fixed temperature and to surface cooling are considered. Results for dimensionless parameters of Frank-Kamenetskii type again agree well with those based on more realistic reaction-rate assumptions where these are available.Keywords
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