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Fast Deflagration and Quasi-Detonation

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In actual operating spaces encumbered with technical tools and equipment there is a possibility of filling them with combustible mixtures. As a rule, feedback mechanisms providing interaction between flame/initial mixture motion and compression waves generated during the combustion process are possible and exist in reactive mixtures. Below are some known examples of such mechanisms [1]:

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    Boris E. Gelfand, Sergey P. Medvedev & Sergey V. Khomik

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Gelfand, B.E., Silnikov, M.V., Medvedev, S.P., Khomik, S.V. (2012). Fast Deflagration and Quasi-Detonation. In: Thermo-Gas Dynamics of Hydrogen Combustion and Explosion. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25352-2_5

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