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Microwave-Assisted Ignition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

J. K. Bechtold
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982
M. R. Booty
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982
G. A. Kriegsmann
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982
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Abstract

The microwave heating and ignition of a combustible material is modeled and analyzed in the small Biot number and large activation energy regimes. Both the temporal and spatial evolution of the temperature within the material are described. The ignition characteristics are determined by a localized equation for the perturbation to the inert temperature, which is shown to exhibit thermal runaway behavior. Analysis of this local equation provides explicit ignition conditions in terms of the physical parameters in the problem.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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