Abstract
Abstract A field-activation combustion synthesis process of the 4B + C reactive system was numerically simulated to investigate the effect of external field and porosity on the combustion reaction by an implicit difference method and a Gauss–Seidel iteration procedure. The new features of the model include a consideration of the melting of each constituent of the reactants and product and the inclusion of considerations involving porosity and dilution. The results show that the self-sustaining reactions are not possible until field-activated temperature is more than 1100 K, which agree with the theoretic calculation. As the reactant porosity values are decreased from 60% to 20%, the combustion velocity first increases because of an increase in the thermal conductivity. The combustion velocity, after reaching a maximum, decreases with a further decrease in the porosity because of the high value of the thermal conductivity of the reactants.
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