On the transition from deflagration to detonation in narrow tubes

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-437

  Kagan, Leonid ^a   Sivashinsky, Gregory ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deflagration to detonation transition

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR TUBES; DEFLAGRATION TO DETONATION TRANSITION; IGNITION CONDITIONS; NARROW CHANNEL; NARROW TUBES; PRE-DETONATION;

DETONATION;

EID: 77950461067     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-010-9252-9     Document Type: Article

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