S.J. Board

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple one-dimensional model of a system in which the two liquids are initially coarsely mixed, and show that there is the possibility of an extremely violent thermal explosion, the structure of which is analogous to that of a detonating chemical explosion.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of experiments involving explosions between molten tin and water is described, together with information from other work, indicate that thermal explosions usually involve several distinct interactions in the same mass of material, and that each interaction forms a bubble containing some vapour whose collapse initiates the next interaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the inverse Leidenfrost phenomenon was observed in hot metal particles which remain suspended above a cool liquid surface by vapour generation, by analogy with the well known effect of the suspension of a liquid drop above a heated surface.

TL;DR: In this paper, the transient heating of a metal foil under water has been studied and both unstable and stable energy transfer processes have been shown to occur at temperatures above the nucleate boiling region and relevant quantitative heat flux data have been obtained.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects on a thermal detonation of sideways flow, interphase slip and thermal expansion of the coolant; the balance of these effects at the place in the reaction zone where the flow goes sonic controls the propagation, and hence efficiency of the explosion.