The chemical-gas dynamic mechanisms of pulsating detonation wave instability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1764, 2000, Pages 3621-3637

  Short, Mark ^a   Kapila, Ashwani K ^b   Quirk, J J ^c  

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

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain branching reactions; Detonations; Failure; Instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347056627     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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