Comments on criteria for direct initiation of detonation

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1764, 2000, Pages 3503-3521

  Lee, J H S ^a   Higgins, A J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blast wave; Cell size; Chapman Jouguet detonation; Detonation; Explosion; Initiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347687197     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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