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Combustion presents itself complicated physicochemical process which proceeds due to progressively self-accelerating exothermal chemical oxidation reactions sustained by an intensive heat release. A strong dependence of the chemical reaction rate on temperature according to the Arrhenius law determines a very high sensitivity of combustion processes to small disturbances of the governing parameters. It also determines an almost abrupt transition of reactive systems from a low temperature state to a high temperature state which is associated with ignition. The existence of a critical state corresponding to ignition, as well as the ability of combustion oxidation reactions to sustain a self-propagating flame front over reactive media represent themselves main features of combustion process.
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Yarin, L.P. (2012). Combustion Processes. In: The Pi-Theorem. Experimental Fluid Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19565-5_9
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