Im. Kotin, INFLUENCE OF CONSTANT ELECTRIC-FIELD ON SELF-PROPAGATING HIGH-TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS WAVE, Combustion, explosion, and shock waves, 30(5), 1994, pp. 626-629
A model of a heterogeneous medium allowing the action of a constant el
ectric field (CEF) on a combustion wave in the condensed phase to be t
aken into account is proposed. It is shown that the influence of the C
EF on the combustion temperature is of threshold type: At a CEF less t
han the threshold, the combustion temperature is constant; above the t
hreshold, the combustion temperature falls with increase in CEF. The c
ombustion rate falls with increase in CEF; this is associated with slo
wing of the reactive diffusion in the combustion wave. On passing thro
ugh the CEF threshold, there is a discontinuity in the combustion-rate
curve; this is due to additional slowing of the reactive diffusion on
account of the reduction in combustion temperature.