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The principal possibility of organizing controlled combustion of a subsonic flow of a propellant in longitudinal pulsed and spin detonation waves is experimentally verified. Conditions and reasons for the existence of detonation waves are considered.
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Bykovskii, F.A., Vedernikov, E.F. Continuous Detonation of a Subsonic Flow of a Propellant. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves 39, 323–334 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023800521344
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