Shock-Induced Thermal Runaway, (9999)
Ignition of an initially cold combustible gas is studied when chemical reaction is switched on due to the passage of a piston-supported shock of sufficient strength. The time and space history of the...
Flow and Chemical Reaction in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Media (2006)
The work supported by this Contract focuses on the fundamental processes involved in spray combustion, transition to detonation, flame-acoustic interaction and vapor explosions. These processes...
Sponsored in part by Grant ER-78-S-024650. Prepared in cooperation with Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY. Dept. of Mathematical Sciences.
The Steady Response of a Nonadiabatic Tubular Reactor, New Multiplicities (2002)
Kapila, A. K., Poore, Aubrey B.
Prepared in cooperation with Colorado State Univ. Fort Collins. Dept. of Mathematics
Effect of Thermal Expansion on the Stability of Plane, Freely Propagating Flames, (2002)
Much of the previous effort on the stability of plane, freely propagating flames to short-wave perturbations is based on the constant-density approximation (CDA). Such a treatment achieves analytical...
Evolution of a Localized Thermal Explosion in a Reactive Gas. (1998)
Jackson, T. L., Kapila, A. K., Stewart, D. S.
Experimental observations of ignition in premixed gaseous reactants indicate that perfectly homogeneous initiation is practically unrealizable. Instead, combustion first sets in, as a rule, at small,...