Understanding curved detonation waves

Conference · Thu Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:10189033

Bukiet, B G ^[1]; Menikoff, R ^[2]

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1. New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ (United States). Dept. of Mathematics
2. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

A wave curve is the set of final states to which an initial state may be connected by a traveling wave. In gas dynamics, for example, the wave curve consists of the shock Hugoniot curve for compressive waves and the rarefaction curve for expansive waves. In this paper, we discuss the wave curve for an undriven planar detonation and for general planar detonations. We then extend the wave curve concept to detonations in converging and diverging geometry. We also discuss the application of these wave curves to the numerical computation of detonation problems.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 10189033
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--92-2915; CONF-9207159--1; ON: DE93000799
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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