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Regimes of Supersonic Combustion: Detonation Waves

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Detonation is the most destructive regime of combustion and, though this process is an infrequent occurrence in the real life, especially in hydrogen + air mixtures, its characteristics are analyzed because of the potential great danger of the process.

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Gelfand, B.E., Silnikov, M.V., Medvedev, S.P., Khomik, S.V. (2012). Regimes of Supersonic Combustion: Detonation Waves. 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_7

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