In this book, scientific fundamentals of the solid flame combustion (SFC) are considered. Solid flame combustion is a specific type of the solid compounds combustion yielding solid products (materials). Some issues of the combustion phenomenology, mechanism and theory of steady and unsteady modes of wave propagation, effect of physical fields on the combustion processes, combustion chemistry, and structural macrokinetics are discussed. Some data on study of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) and its application in industrial-scale processes are presented.

The book can be interesting for research workers active in the field of chemical physics, macroscopic kinetics and combustion, materials science, and metallurgy, as well as for college teachers and engineers.

Contents

Foreword and Introduction

1. About Solid Flame Combustion
1.1. Classical Concepts of Combustion Waves
1.2. SFC as a Limiting Kind of Combustion
1.3. Kinds and General Characteristics of SFC

2. Experimental Diagnostics of SFC
2.1. Initiation of SFC
2.2. Some Patterns of the SFC Front Propagation
2.3. Thermal Structure of the SFC Steady Wave
2.4. About Diagnostics of SFC Products

3. Mechanism and Theory of Steady SFC
3.1. Thermodynamics of SFC
3.2. Theory of Perfect SFC
3.3. SFC in Mixtures of Powders with Intermediate Molten Layer in the Combustion Wave
3.4. Processes of the "Liquid Flame - Solid End Product" Type
3.5. About SFC Mechanism in Hybride Systems "Solid - Gas"
3.6. Nonequilibrium Theory of Flame Propagation
3.7. Heterogeneous Effects in the SFC Mechanism: Concepts and the Simplest Theory

4. Unsteady SFC Modes
4.1. Limit of the Stability Loss
4.2. Experimental Diagnostics of SFC Unsteady Modes
4.3. Theory and Mathematical Modeling of SFC Unsteady Modes
4.4. Some Remarks about Nature of Unsteady SFC

5. Chemical Aspects of SFC
5.1. Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis: Chemical Routes
5.2. Heat Release Kinetics at High Temperatures
5.3. Phase and Structure Formation in SFC Products. Overview of Structural Macrokinetics

6. SFC in External Physical Fields
6.1. SFC in Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields
6.2. SFC in the Gravity Field

7. SHS as R&D Area of SFC Application
7.1. SHS Production Methods and Materials
7.2. Production, Application, and Service Characteristics of SHS Products
7.3. Instead of Conclusions. Modern Structure of SHS Area and Promising Research Directions