Detonation structure under chain branching kinetics

Shock Waves

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 247-257

  Liang, Z ^a   Bauwens, L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chain branching; Explosion; Induction length; Perturbation analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746411016     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00193-006-0031-4     Document Type: Article

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