Self-propagating free-radical binary frontal polymerization

DOI10.1023/B:ENGI.0000032710.31028.A3MaRDI QIDQ701820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. F. Perry, V. A. Volpert

Publication date 14 January 2005

Published in Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/b:engi.0000032710.31028.a3

zbMATH Keywords

binary free-radical polymerizationfrontal polymerizationmodeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30) Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

Review text

The authors present a mathematical model for free-radical binary frontal polymerization. This model describes the experimental situation that a test tube is filled with a mixture of two monomers and an initiator. By using simplifying assumptions, they derive expressions for final monomer concentrations, temperature at the front, and propagation velocity. These expressions are compared to numerical results of the full equation to demonstrate that the approximate analytical solutions are sufficiently accurate. They use methods from combustion theory and perturbation techniques to obtain approximate solutions. They also study which parameters in the equation affect the velocity and temperature of the front. They conculde that the comonomer feed and the kinetics of the monomers and initiator highly influence the front velocity, while the front temperature has a less influence on the velocity. This is unusual, since in frontal homopolymerization and frontal copolymerization the front temperature is dominant in determining the velocity of the front.

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