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The process of diffraction of a plane detonation wave in a uniform stoichiometric suspension of small aluminum particles in oxygen on a backward-facing step in a plane channel is studied. The effect of the particle size and channel geometry on the wave pattern and wave-propagation regimes is analyzed. Analogies with the corresponding flows in gas mixtures are established. Typical differences caused by the processes of interaction between the phases are found.
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Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 95–107, September–October, 2009.
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Kratova, Y.V., Fedorov, A.V. & Khmel’, T.A. Diffraction of a plane detonation wave on a back-facing step in a gas suspension. Combust Explos Shock Waves 45, 591–602 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10573-009-0071-z
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