- Author
- Thomas, P. H.
- Title
- Some Approximations in the Theory of Self-Heating and Thermal Explosion.
- Coporate
- Fire Research Station, Borehamwood, England
- Journal
- Transactions of the Faraday Society, Vol. 56, No. 450, Part 6, 833-839, June 1960
- Keywords
- self-heating | thermal explosions | temperature | heat transfer | cooling
- Abstract
- In transient self-heating problems the spatial distribution of temperature in symmetrically heated bodies is usually assumed to be uniform and an effective surface transfer coefficient is defined so that the analysis can be simplified. This paper shows how this effective heat transfer coefficient can be simply related to the real surface cooling.