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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2011, Article ID 692370, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/692370 Research Article Effect of Thermal Radiation on Ignition Time and Critical Temperature of a Single Sodium Droplet Felix Ilesanmi Alao,1 Kolawole Sunday Adegbie,1 and Matthew Oluwafemi Lawal2 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Federal University of Technology, P.M.B 704, Akure 340252, Nigeria 2 Department of Mathematics, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo 351001, Nigeria Correspondence should be addressed to Felix Ilesanmi Alao, dupsan65@ Received 29 September 2010; Revised 12 December 2010; Accepted 10 January 2011 Academic Editor: Harvinder S. Sidhu Copyright q 2011 Felix Ilesanmi Alao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The present study addresses the problem of ignition of a single sodium droplet, which is an important issue for the nuclear facilities safety. The study follows the approach of previous works and extends the results of those papers to the case of radiative heat loss. The contribution of the thermal radiation is taken into account based on the P-1 approximation for thermal radiation transfer. An extension of solutions of the existing model is obtained in the presence of radiative heat loss for ignition time and critical temperature by exploiting the sensitivity of the process to large chemical activation energy. Different qualitative effects of varying the dimensionless convective heat loss parameter with ignition time and