A combustion
front quenching technique is used to investigate the
separation of reaction products during a fast self-propagating high-temperature
synthesis (SHS) thermite reaction, which is applied to the aluminothermic
welding of rails. Quenching of the reaction zone with a melt temperature
at approximately 2400 K enables the possibility of analyzing intermediate
stages during exothermic SHS type reactions and the prediction of
a time duration for a complete separation of the products Fe, Al2O3, and intermetallics. An average separation time
is then used to validate a 3D phase field solver phaseFieldFoam and solution parameters through application of the diffusive Cahn–Hilliard
equation, also known as model B.
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