The influence of the flow of the reacting gas on the conditions for a thermal explosion

DOI10.1073/PNAS.94.24.12762zbMATH Open0945.76091arXivmath/9909105OpenAlexW2029754786WikidataQ36708948 ScholiaQ36708948MaRDI QIDQ4374976FDOQ4374976

Authors: G. I. Barenblatt, Anton P. Kast, Alexandre J. Chorin 

Publication date: 9 October 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classical problem of thermal explosion is modified so that the chemically active gas is not at rest but is flowing in a long cylindrical pipe. Up to a certain section the heat-conducting walls of the pipe are held at low temperature so that the reaction rate is small and there is no heat release; at that section the ambient temperature is increased and an exothermic reaction begins. The question is whether a slow reaction regime will be established or a thermal explosion will occur. The mathematical formulation of the problem is presented. It is shown that when the pipe radius is larger than a critical value, the solution of the new problem exists only up to a certain distance along the axis. The critical radius is determined by conditions in a problem with a uniform axial temperature. The loss of existence is interpreted as a thermal explosion; the critical distance is the safe reactor's length. Both laminar and developed turbulent flow regimes are considered. In a computational experiment the loss of the existence appears as a divergence of a numerical procedure; numerical calculations reveal asymptotic scaling laws with simple powers for the critical distance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9909105

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problemasymptotic behavior of solutionscaling lawscritical distancesupercritical regimeequation of energy balanceArrhenius lawchemical energy releaseexothermic reactionsduct-type chemical reactorthermal explosion theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Chemically reacting flows (80A32) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

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