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Modelling Nitromethane Combustion
Author(s) -
Kelzenberg Stefan,
Eisenreich Norbert,
Eckl Wilhelm,
Weiser Volker
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-4087(199906)24:03<189::aid-prep189>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - nitromethane , combustion , propellant , physics , chemistry , humanities , materials science , philosophy , thermodynamics , organic chemistry
Abstract In combustion research, nitromethane is an important nitro‐compounded liquid propellant offering high performance. Additionally it can be used as a model substance for understanding mechanisms of combustion of solid propellants. The objectives of investigations were the burning behaviour and the flame spectrum in the UV/VIS spectral range because of the appearance of strong radical emissions also present in flames of other energetic materials. The evaluation is based on a detailed chemical kinetics and a linear combustion model including a reduced mechanism.