In rotating detonation engines and explosion accidents, may propagate in an inhomogeneous mixture with inert layers. This study focuses on propagation a stoichiometric H2/O2/N2 multiple layers normal to the direction. One- two-dimensional simulations considering detailed chemistry are conducted. The emphasis is placed assessing effects of layer reinitiation/failure, speed, cell structure size. ...

The effect of chemical reactions on the blast initiation of detonation in gaseous media has been investigated in this paper. Analytical method is based on the numerical solution of onedimensional reactive Euler equations. So far, analyses on the blast initiation of detonation have modeled the combustion process as a one-step chemical reaction, which follows the Arrhenius rate law. Previous stud...

Based on a general theory of detonation waves with an embedded sonic locus that we have previously developed, we carry out asymptotic analysis of weakly curved slowly varying detonation waves and show that the theory predicts the phenomenon of detonation ignition and failure. The analysis is not restricted to near ChapmanJouguet detonation speeds and is capable of predicting quasi-steady, norma...

Ralf Deiterding California Institute of Technology 1200 East California Blvd., MC 158-79, Pasadena, CA 91125 [email protected] Abstract Large-scale numerical simulations have been carried out to analyze the internal wave structure of a regular oscillating low-pressure H2 : O2 : Ar-Chapman-Jouguet detonation in two and three space-dimensions. The chemical reaction is modeled with a non-equil...

The paper presents a solution strategy for Euler equations for multiple thermally perfect gaseous species with detailed chemical reaction. Via operator-splitting a high-resolution finite-volume scheme and a stiff ODE solver are coupled. A parallel blockstructured adaptive mesh refinement algorithm is utilized to achieve the required local resolution. A highly resolved computation of regular det...

Two-dimensional simulation results are presented that capture at great detail the temporal evolution of Mach reflection triple point sub-structures intrinsic to gaseous detonation waves. The observed patterns are classified by shock polar analysis for realistic, thermally perfect but nonreactive gases. A diagram of the transition boundaries between possible Mach reflection structures is constru...