The results of experimental studies during which transition to detonation events occurred are presented. These observations and their interpretation are then discussed, and the conditions for the onset of detonation are described, with particular attention paid to the nature of the phenomena of deflagration-to-detonation transition. The resulting implications for predicting detonation evolution...

We present simulations of thermonuclear supernovae admixed with an extended component fermionic cold dark matter. consider the explosion a Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf using deflagration model deflagration-detonation transition spherical symmetry. The matter is comparable in size that normal matter, and so system described by two-fluid, one-dimensional Eulerian hydrodynamics. leaves all trapp...

To characterize the ignition process in homogeneous charge compression ignition engines, high fidelity simulations are performed to study the effects of different initial temperature distributions on the autoignition of a turbulent homogeneous mixture at high pressure. The effects of the initial temperature distribution on the ignition and subsequent heat release are studied by comparison of si...

Context. A promising model for normal Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosions are delayed detonations of Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs, in which the burning starts out as a subsonic deflagration and turns at a later phase of the explosion into a supersonic detonation. The mechanism of the underlying deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) is unknown in detail, but necessary conditions have b...

We analyze the sensitivity of the flame propagation in a Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf to initial conditions during the subsonic burning phase (deflagration), using 2D simulations of the full WD. Results are presented for a wide variety of initial flame distributions including central and off-center single point and multi-point, simultaneous and non-simultaneous, ignitions. We also examine the...

We present detailed NLTE synthetic spectra of hydrodynamic SNe Ia models. We make no assumptions about the form of the spectrum at the inner boundary. We calculate both Chandrasekhar-mass deflagration models and sub-Chandrasekhar “helium detonators.” Gamma-ray deposition is handled in a simple, accurate manner. We have parameterized the storage of energy that arises from the time dependent depo...