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Reaction Kinetics Model of Polymerization in the Absence of Material Diffusion


MO Durojaye
RO Ayeni

Abstract

This paper is on reaction kinetics models for approximating diffuse propagation reaction fronts in one-dimensional gasless combustion type models. This study is carried out in the context of free-radical frontal polymerization (FP) via a propagating, self sustaining reacting front in the absence of material diffusion. The model which is a system of partial differential equations is linearized into a system of ordinary differential equations and solved numerically. Results are obtained for different values of E .

Keywords: Frontal polymerization, Material diffusion

Journal of the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics, Volume 19 (November, 2011), pp 199 – 204

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