Detonability of fuel-oxygen and fuel-air mixtures

Shock Waves

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-174

  Sochet, I ^a   Aminallah, M ^a   Brossard, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Critical energy; Cylindrical detonation; Spherical detonation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031516630     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001930050073     Document Type: Article

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