Two-dimensional reactive Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a simple implicit Beam-Warming finite difference scheme. Comparisons of the detonation wave solutions of reactive Euler equations and reactive Navier-Stokes equations show that physical diffusion is important at high resolution when the numerical diffusion becomes negligible. Hence, for accurate detonation wave solutions it is ne...

Time-dependent, two-dimensional, numerical simulations of a transmitted detonation show reignition occuring by one of two mechanisms. The first mechanism involves the collision of triple points as they expand along a decaying shock front. In the second mechanism ignition results from the coalescence of a number of small, relatively high pressure regions left over from the decay of weakened tran...

Imploding toroidal detonation waves were used to initiate detonations in propane–air and ethylene–air mixtures inside of a tube. The imploding wave was generated by an initiator consisting of an array of channels filled with acetylene–oxygen gas and ignited with a single spark. The initiator was designed as a low-drag initiator tube for use with pulse detonation engines. To detonate hydrocarbon...

Detonations and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) are experimentally studied in horizontal pipes which are partially filled with water. The gas layer above the water is stoichiometric hydrogen–oxygen at 1 bar. The detonation wave produces oblique shock waves in the water, which focus at the bottom of the pipe due to the curvature of the walls. This results in peak pressures at the bot...

We study the conversion of neutron matter into strange matter as a detonation wave. The detonation is assumed to originate from a central region in a spherically symmetric background of neutrons with a varying radial density distribution. We present self-similar solutions for the propagation of detonation in static and collapsing backgrounds of neutron matter. The solutions are obtained in the ...

The structure of a two-phase steady detonation in a granulated solid propellant is studied, and existence conditions for a one-dimensional, steady two-phase detonation are given. Ordinary differential equations from continuum mixture theory are solved numerically to determine steady wave structure. In the limiting case where heat transfer and compaction effects are negligible, the model reduces...

We study the conversion of neutron matter into strange matter as a detonation wave. The detonation is assumed to originate from a central region in a spherically symmetric background of neutrons with a varying radial density distribution. We present self-similar solutions for the propagation of detonation in static and collapsing backgrounds of neutron matter. The solutions are obtained in the ...

Detonation interaction with an interface was investigated, where the interface separated a combustible from an oxidizing or inert mixture. The ethylene-oxygen combustible mixture had a fuel-rich composition to promote secondary combustion with the oxidizer in the turbulent mixing zone TMZ that resulted from the interaction. Sharp interfaces were created by using a nitro-cellulose membrane to se...

The propagation of a detonation wave remains one of the challenging problems in physics. While it is possible to predict the average propagation velocity almost correctly using classical theory [1, 2], there is no theory to explain the internal flow structure satisfactorily. The famous Zel’dovich-von Neumann-Döring theory [3, 4, 5] is widely considered to describe the one-dimensional detonation...