| Abstract: | The problem of the propagation of an exothermic-reaction front in a condensed medium has been examined in a number of reports 1–8], in which various statements of the problem have been analyzed, the conditions of existence and uniqueness of a solution determined, and different approximate methods of determining the propagation velocity of the front suggested. In 1–6] the examination was conducted for a specific class of heat-release functions corresponding to the kinetics of exothermic transformation in homogeneous condensed systems. The propagation of the reaction front in heterogeneous sytems (condensed mixtures) was studied in 7, 8] for particular forms of the heat-release function corresponding to certain simplifying assumptions concerning the structure of the heterogeneous medium. In connection with the complexity of the structures of real condensed systems 9–11] and the diversity of the kinetic laws of interaction, in the present report the available results on a broader class of heat-release functions are generalized, and the possible approximate methods of determining the propagation velocity are analyzed. |
