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On the mechanism of hotspot initiation of detonation

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A mechanism of the initiation of hotspots in heterogeneous solid high explosives was considered. It was demonstrated that the growth of hotspots may be associated with the propagation of a thermal wave in the deflagration regime only at an early stage of the process. The growth at later stages occurs in the reactive shock regime, a finding that renders the assumption about a very high deflagration wave velocity redundant.

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kuz’mitskii, 2007, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2007, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 13–20.

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Kuz’mitskii, I.V. On the mechanism of hotspot initiation of detonation. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 1, 581–587 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793107060127

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