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Detonation combustion of gas mixtures using a hypervelocity projectile

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This paper considers, from a unified point of view, problems of initiation of detonation combustion of a gaseous mixture using a hypervelocity projectile (HVP), The consideration is based on the energy criterion forHVP-induced detonation initiation. Experimental results are given that support the correctness of the criterion in a wide range of diameters (5–250 mm),HVP velocities (800–3500m/sec), and compositions of explosive mixtures (from active fuel-oxygen to hard-to-detonate fuel-air mixtures). The processes ofHVP interaction with an explosive mixture are classified. The previously unknown effect of jet formation of a detonation wave from a ballistic wave (at velocities less than the detonation velocities) was discovered for anHVP with a plane bow.

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Lavrentśev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 85–102, September–October, 1997.

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Vasilśev, A.A. Detonation combustion of gas mixtures using a hypervelocity projectile. Combust Explos Shock Waves 33, 583–597 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02672745

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