CORESTA Congress, Berlin, 2016, Smoke Science/Product Technology Groups, ST 24
A CFD model for the smouldering combustion of the cellulosic substrate during the ignition propensity test
GUINDOS P.(1); PATEL A.(1,2); KOLB T.(1)
(1) Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Aachen, Germany; (2) TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
An experimental and numerical investigation was conducted to characterise the influence of the cellulosic substrate used to assess the ignition propensity (IP) of cigarettes. The objective was to better understand the poor repeatability of the test...