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Effect of channel geometry and mixture temperature on detonation-to-deflagration transition in gases

N. N. Smirnov, V. F. Nikitin

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899

Abstract: Results from theoretical and experimental studies of deflagration-to-detonation transition in hydrocarbon–air mixtures are reported. The effects of internal geometry, turbulence transition of the flow, and the temperature and fuel concentration in the unburned mixture on detonation initiation are considered.

Keywords: deflagration, detonation, gas, turbulence, transition.

UDC: 534.2

Received: 10.02.2003
Accepted: 06.05.2003

 English version: Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves, 2004, 40:2, 186–199

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