Detonations

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Introduction

• Detonations are supersonic combustion waves

• Can be unstable and produce complex cellular structures

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Research Details

• Investigation of dodecane-air gas-phase detonations

• Applicable for fuel storage safety and detonation-based propulsion 

• Complex chemistry including pyrolysis

• 2-D reactive compressible Navier-Stokes equations

• Detailed multi-step reaction mechanism 

• Specially designed simplified one-step reaction model

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Collaborators

Sai Sandeep Dammati, Texas A&M University 

Alexei Poludnenko​, University of Connecticut