Modelling the Combustion of Solid-phase Fuels in Cone Calorimeter Experiments

摘要

The process of ablation often forms a key part in many mathematical models describing the combustion of a solid-phase fuel. The phrase was first used to describe the thermal erosion of glaciers over 140 years ago. In recent times it has been applied to the thermal degradation of a solid when exposed to a large flux of heat. Two fundamental assumptions in the treatment are than mass is lost only from surface regions and that the temperature of the surface remains constant throughout the period of mass loss.