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COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Volume 156, Issue 8, Pages 1653-1661Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.02.012
Keywords
Cylindrical detonation; Transverse waves; Cellular detonation instabilities; Cell bifurcation; Numerical simulation
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10632090]
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Self-organized generation of transverse waves associated with the transverse wave instabilities at a diverging cylindrical detonation front was numerically Studied by solving two-dimensional Euler equations implemented with an improved two-step chemical kinetic model. After solution validation, four mechanisms of the transverse wave generation were identified from numerical Simulations, and referred to as the concave front focusing, the kinked front evolution, the wrinkled front evolution and the transverse wave merging, respectively. The propagation of the cylindrical detonation is maintained by the growth of the transverse waves that match the rate of increase in Surface area of the detonation front to asymptotically approach a constant average number of transverse waves per unit length along the circumference of the detonation front. This cell bifurcation phenomenon of cellular detonations is discussed in detail to gain better understanding on detonation physics. (C) 2009 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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