The Proceedings of the Thermal Engineering Conference
Online ISSN : 2424-290X
2016
Session ID : D121
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Stability Analysis of Smoldering Combustion of Thin Solid
Kazunori KuwanaKenta SuzukiYuki TadaGenichiro Kushida
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This paper presents results of theoretical and experimental studies on smoldering combustion of thin solid with a particular focus on its stability. In a recent study, an effective Lewis number was proposed to be the governing parameter of the phenomena; it was shown that combustion characteristics such as the fraction burned and the finger width can be expressed in a unified manner using the effective Lewis number. In this paper, an attempt is made to express the experimentally measured smoldering spread velocity as a function of the effective Lewis number.

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