Pulsating instability of detonations with a two-step chain-branching reaction model: Theory and numerics

Combustion Theory and Modelling

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 401-416

  Short, Mark ^a   Sharpe, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DETONATION; HEAT RADIATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REACTION KINETICS;

PULSATING DETONATIONS;

FLAME RESEARCH;

FLAME;

EID: 0037659852     PISSN: 13647830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1364-7830/7/2/311     Document Type: Article

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