Proper characterization of the transient interaction between shock front motion and chemical
energy release is the key for further understanding of unsteady detonation dynamics. We …

Emergence of a detonation in a homogeneous, exothermically reacting medium can be
deemed to occur in two phases. The first phase processes the medium so as to create …

Detonation initiation has been extensively investigated in the past several decades. In the
literature, there are many studies on detonation initiation using a large amount of blast …

The nonzero width of a curved detonation front has a significant effect on its propagation.
Physically, the curvature effect is a small but important correction. In numerical simulations …

The process by which a trigger ignited shockless weak detonation is transformed into a
classical Zeldovich–von Neumann–Doering (ZND) detonation as the trigger wave …

Chemical kinetics plays an important role in the direct detonation initiation (DDI) of various
combustible mixtures. However, its impact on detonation dynamics has rarely been studied …

Despite decades of research, understanding of the basic physical mechanisms governing
the deflagration-todetonation (DDT) transition still remains largely elusive. Fundamentally …

We propose a linear asymptotic theory to describe the propagation of planar detonation
fronts through heterogeneous mixtures of reactive gases consisting of random fluctuations in …

In this work we discuss the application of an evolution equation that we have developed for
the dynamics of a slowly evolving weakly-curved detonation to a problem of direct …

In detonation, the coupling between fluid dynamics and chemical energy release is critical.
The reaction rate behind the shock front is extremely sensitive to temperature perturbations …