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Engineering Application of Gaseous Detonations

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Gaseous Detonation Physics and Its Universal Framework Theory

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Engineering applications of gas detonation include detonation propulsion, detonation and explosion processing and detonation-driving wind tunnel technology. To achieve thrust, detonation propulsion uses the expansion and acceleration of the high-temperature and high-pressure gas generated by detonation combustion. Typical detonation propulsion concepts include pulse detonation engine, oblique detonation engine and rotating detonation engine. When high pressure acts on the surface of special materials, detonation can be used to create engineered properties and shapes, which is known as explosion processing. To generate strong shock for compressing air, the detonation-driven wind tunnel uses the high temperature and high-pressure products of the detonation gas as the high-pressure driving source of the pulse-type shock tunnel. Examples of such detonation-driven shock tunnels are the JF-10 and JF-12 of the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Jiang, Z., Teng, H. (2022). Engineering Application of Gaseous Detonations. In: Gaseous Detonation Physics and Its Universal Framework Theory. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7002-3_7

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