A numerical investigation of the physicochemical processes occurring during water evaporation from the pores of the surface layer of a forest combustible material has been carried out. The characteristic features of the suppression of the thermal decomposition reaction of a combustible material with water filling fullyits pores and formation of a water fi lm over its surface have been determined. The characteristic times of suppression of thermal decomposition reactions under various environmental conditions and the thickness and kinds of forest combustible material (birch leaves, pine and spruce needles, etc.) have been established.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 751–758, July–August, 2014.
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Zhdanova, A.O., Kuznetsov, G.V. & Strizhak, P.A. Numerical Investigation of Physicochemical Processes Occurring During Water Evaporation in the Surface Layer Pores of a Forest Combustible Material. J Eng Phys Thermophy 87, 773–781 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-014-1071-8
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