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On the critical conditions for an assembly of interacting thermons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

B. F. Gray
B. F. Gray
Affiliation:
School of Chemistry, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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Abstract

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The interaction of a number of self-heating bodies depositing heat into a common finite heat bath and thereby influencing each other is a problem of great practical importance in many areas including storage and transport of self-heating materials, drums of chemicals, foodstuffs etc. Critical conditions for the complete assembly of interacting heat producers (thermons) are derived under various assumptions and modes of ignition are identified. These include cooperative modes as well as modes which are simply perturbations of ignition for single thermons.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , July 2001 , pp. 1 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2001

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