The paper describes the physical and mathematical model of the ignition of a liquid fuel droplet suddenly immersed in a hot oxidizing medium. The model was solved numerically by the finite element method. The ignition lags in terms of ambient temperature, oxygen concentration and initial droplet diameter were computed.
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