Ignition and unstable regimes of gasless combustion of a disk-shaped sample

Abstract

The effect of ignition conditions and the parameters of the melting of the inert component on unstable combustion modes is studied numerically using a model of solid-flame combustion of a disk. It is shown that the shape of the heated region initiating combustion of the disk determines the number and trajectories of hotspots of the self-propagating combustion zone. The effect of the phase transition on the combustion characteristics is the more pronounced the closer the phase transition temperature to the combustion temperature. In this case, the combustion front takes the shape of a ring.