Experiments were carried out in FY04 on detonation wave structure, detonation wave diffraction, and the fracture of thin-walled tubes by detonation waves. Computations were performed on detonation wave propagation and the elastic response of tubes to detonation loading. One new effort was initiated on the diffraction of detonation waves, and the other activities were a continuation of previous ...

We study the asymptotic stability of a plane CJ detonation wave under the assumption of small resolved heat release (SRHR). We prove that the solution exists globally and that the solution converges uniformly to a shifted CJ detonation wave as t! + 1 for initial data which are small perturbations of the CJ detonation wave. The weighted energy method is used to overcome the diiculty arising from...

Pulse detonation technology can be a revolutionary approach for propulsion system since it offers significant fuel efficiency, higher thrust to weight ratio and low cost. Although the design concept of a pulse detonation engine is comparatively simple, but the development and stabilization of sustainable detonation wave front is difficult. Consequently pulse detonation engine technology is stil...

An auto-ignition detonation phenomenon can be initiated by a wedge confined in a channel. A new, self-sustaining, normal detonation wave engine concept is proposed. The detonation processes were numerically modeled with a simplified two-dimensional wedged channel flow that was deemed to emulate a real three-dimensional configuration. The results showed that within certain ranges of incoming flo...

The results of experimental studies of organic dust detonation in the presence of chemically inert particles are presented. Tests were carried out using a vertical detonation tube, and direct streak pictures showing the flame acceleration and pressure and temperature records were obtained. Flax dust, dispersed in an oxygen atmosphere, was used as the fuel, and two kinds of quartz sand were intr...

We establish the existence of the viscous proole of an undriven divergent detonation wave for a model problem with small viscosity. It is known that there is a sonic point inside the reaction zone of a divergent detonation wave. As a consequence, the detonation wave proole is a transonic proole and the wave speed cannot be determined before the problem is solved. The wave speed may be interpret...

We present a new, fully conservative version of the ghost fluid method applicable for tracking material interfaces, inert shocks, and both deflagration and detonation waves in as many as three spatial dimensions. The exact discrete conservation properties are most important when tracking inert shocks and detonation waves, so that is the focus of this paper. In particular, we address the invisci...

Explosive forming is one of the unconventional techniques in which, most commonly, the water is used as the pressure transmission medium. One of the newest methods in explosive forming is gas detonation forming which uses a normal shock wave derived of gas detonation, to form sheet metals. For this purpose a detonation is developed from the reaction of H2+O2 mixture in a long cylindrical detona...