Gradient mechanism of detonation initiation for PDE applications

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rakitin, A E ^a,b   Starikovskii, A Yu ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NEQLab Research BV   (Netherlands)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; DETONATION; MIXTURES; SHOCK WAVES;

DEFLAGRATION TO DETONATION TRANSITION; DETONATION INITIATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GOVERNING PARAMETERS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE CHANNELS; INITIATION MECHANISM; NANOSECOND GAS DISCHARGE; SIMULTANEOUS IGNITION;

INITIATORS (EXPLOSIVES);

EID: 78549283867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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