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Stability and nonlinear dynamics of one-dimensional overdriven detonations in gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Paul Clavin  and
Longting He
Paul Clavin
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Unite Mixte 138, CNRS – Universités d'Aix-Marseille, Centre Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, Service 252, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen, 13397 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
Longting He
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre, Unite Mixte 138, CNRS – Universités d'Aix-Marseille, Centre Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme, Service 252, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen, 13397 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
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Abstract

The purpose of this analytical work is twofold: first, to clarify the physical mechanisms triggering the one-dimensional instabilities of plane detonations in gases; secondly to provide a nonlinear description of the longitudinal dynamics valid even far from the bifurcation. The fluctuations of the rate of heat release result from the temperature fluctuations of the shocked gas with a time delay introduced by the propagation of entropy waves. The motion of the shock is governed by a mass conservation resulting from the gas expansion across the reaction zone whose position fluctuates relative to the inert shock. The effects of longitudinal acoustic waves are quite negligible in pistonsupported detonations at high overdrives with a small difference of specific heats. This limit leads to a useful quasi-isobaric approximation for enlightening the basic mechanism of galloping detonations. Strong nonlinear effects, free from the spurious singularities of the square-wave model, are picked up by considering two different temperature sensitivities of the overall reaction rate: one governing the induction length, another one the thickness of the exothermic zone. A nonlinear integral equation for the longitudinal dynamics of overdriven detonations is obtained as an asymptotic solution of the reactive Euler equations. The analysis uses a distinguished limit based on an infinitely large temperature sensitivity of the induction kinetics and a small difference of specific heats. Comparisons with numerical calculations show a satisfactory agreement even outside the limits of validity of the asymptotic solution.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 306 , 10 January 1996 , pp. 353 - 378
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© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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