Steven F. Son

TL;DR: A brief review of the classifications of metal combustion based on thermodynamic considerations and the different types of combustion regimes of metal particles (diffusion vs. kinetic control) is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Baer-Nunziato model is reduced to a two-phase mixture model with unequal phase velocities and phase pressures, and the reduced models are hyperbolic and thermodynamically consistent with the parent model, but they cannot be expressed in conservation form and hence require a regularization in order to specify the jump conditions across shock waves.

TL;DR: In this paper, combustion velocities were experimentally determined for nanocomposite thermite powders composed of aluminum (Al) fuel and molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) oxidizer under well-confined conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance of four different nanoaluminum/metal-oxide composites in terms of pressure output and propagaton speed for the open burn experiment and found that there is a correlation between the maximum pressure output of each composite and optimum propagation speed.

TL;DR: Kapila et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed the two-phase mixture model developed by Baer and Nunziato (BN) to study the deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in granular explosives.