Experimental and Modeling Study on the Ignition Kinetics of Nitromethane behind Reflected Shock Waves.

Nitromethane (NM) is the simplest nitroalkane fuel and has demonstrated potential usage as propellant and fuel additive. Thus, understanding the combustion characteristics and chemistry of NM is critical to the development of hierarchical detailed kinetic models of nitro-containing energetic materials. Herein, to further investigate the ignition kinetics of NM and supplement the experimental database for kinetic mechanism development, an experimental and kinetic modeling analysis of the ignition delay times (IDTs) of NM behind reflected shock waves at high fuel concentrations is reported against previous studies.