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Results of an experimental study of continuous spin and pulsed detonation of hydrogen-oxygen and acetylene-oxygen mixtures in a flow-type annular combustor 10 cm in diameter with channel expansion in the regime of oxidizer ejection are presented. Through comparisons with the mechanical analogy of a piston-driven pump, it is found that the detonation wave serves as a pump for the oxidizer, and the rarefaction wave serves as a suction piston. Stable regimes of continuous spin detonation with one transverse wave are observed under the test conditions used; the wave velocity is D = 1.76–1.6 km/sec for hydrogen and D = 1.46–1.2 km/sec for acetylene. The frequency of the pulsed detonation wave is 7.3-5 kHz in the H2-O2 mixture and approximately 2.5 kHz in the C2H2-O2 mixture.
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Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 116–124, May–June, 2010.
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Bykovskii, F.A., Zhdan, S.A. & Vedernikov, E.F. Continuous detonation in the regime of self-oscillatory ejection of the oxidizer. 1. Oxygen as a oxidizer. Combust Explos Shock Waves 46, 344–351 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10573-010-0047-z
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