Stabilization criteria for thermally explosive materials (Q800791)

A previously obtained condition [the first author, Combustion and flame 23, 329-336 (1974)] on the boundary temperature for the existence of a unique steady state solution of the zeroth order Arrhenius reaction equation is shown to be sufficient to guarantee decay of the temperature in the corresponding transient problem. For the heat equation we obtain a bound on the size of the initial data. The bound depends upon domain size and geometry, which may be used to ascertain when disturbances decay to zero in time.