<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The temperature and smoke components distributions inside a burning cigarette have been briefly reviewed. Then, focusing on our mathematical model to explain the natural smoldering mechanism of a cigarette and new mathematical models recently published by other authors, an approach to modeling a burning cigarette has been outlined.</p><p>It has been more than forty years since modeling the burning process of a cigarette was first attempted. Although the modeling work, which has been adopted as a means to research the burning mechanism of a cigarette, has seen a certain degree of progress in the last forty years, almost all mathematical models published are restricted to a burning cigarette under a free convection or a steady draw condition. No realistic model has been published yet to explain the processes occurring inside a burning cigarette under an intermittent puffing cycle.</p></abstract>

The temperature and smoke components distributions inside a burning cigarette have been briefly reviewed. Then, focusing on our mathematical model to explain the natural smoldering mechanism of a cigarette and new mathematical models recently published by other authors, an approach to modeling a burning cigarette has been outlined.It has been more than forty years since modeling the burning process of a cigarette was first attempted. Although the modeling work, which has been adopted as a means to research the burning mechanism of a cigarette, has seen a certain degree of progress in the last forty years, almost all mathematical models published are restricted to a burning cigarette under a free convection or a steady draw condition. No realistic model has been published yet to explain the processes occurring inside a burning cigarette under an intermittent puffing cycle.

An Approach to Modeling a Burning Cigarette

Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ) Testing Laboratory, 3-1-39 Wakamiya, Ishioka, Ibaraki 315-0017, Japan

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The temperature and smoke components distributions inside a burning cigarette have been briefly reviewed. Then, focusing on our mathematical model to explain...

An Approach to Modeling a Burning Cigarette

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 286 - 293

Received: Nov 24, 2004

Accepted: Jan 19, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cttr-2013-0795

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.