CONVECTIVE STABILITY OF THE HORIZONTAL REACTING LIQUID LAYER IN THE PRESENCE OF VARIOUS COMPLICATING FACTORS

The convective stability of a horizontal chemically active liquid layer is studied within which an exothermal zero-order reaction takes place in the presence of a number of complicating factors: warming of the layer, different thermal conductivities of the boundaries and transverse motion of the reactant. Using the Runge-Kutta method, numerical investigation of the linear spectral stability problem of the steady-state regimes of heat transfer determined by solving the generalized non-linear problem of thermal explosion is carried out. The results obtained demonstrate a substantial influence of the above-listed complicating factors on the critical conditions for the thermal explosion and on the limit of the incipience of the reactant convective motion.