Home – Home – Jornals – Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves 2026 number 4

The theoretical interpretation of experiments that demonstrated the ability of aluminum nanoparticles to promote hydrocarbon combustion requires the development of next-generation aluminum nanoparticle combustion models with high predictive power for not only combustion time but also other nanoparticle combustion characteristics. This paper provides a review of the aluminum nanoparticle combustion models developed to date. Experiments on the combustion of aluminum nanoparticles behind shock waves are discussed. An explanation for the observed dependence of combustion time on oxygen concentration is proposed, based on the concept of molten aluminum oxide as a highly disordered pseudocrystalline structure in which defect equilibrium is established independently of the oxygen partial pressure.