Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1960, The Physics, chemistry and dynamics of explosions (13 February 2012), pp. 740-773 (34 pages) ...

Suddenly, there's a flash of intense light and heat, followed by a rapidly expanding fireball. Combustion of high explosives is everywhere in popular culture, and it's also critical for ensuring the ...

Detonation combustion achieves near-constant-volume burning, drastically reducing entropy generation and wasting less energy as heat compared to traditional deflagration propulsion. Its supersonic ...

A study demonstrates an experimental framework for developing detonation-based propulsion. Conventional propulsion fuels and technologies produce thrust through deflagration, which is a subsonic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two mechanisms have been proposed for the build-up of detonation by solid explosives: (a) In the self-heating mechanism, when heat is evolved ...

The bright minds from the University of Central Florida (UCF) are on a path to revolutionize the future of air travel, and even facilitate interplanetary transportation. In the quest to find a ...

UCF researchers say they've trapped a sustained explosive detonation, fixed in place, for the first time, channeling its enormous power into thrust in a new oblique wave detonation engine that could ...

A startup high-speed flight company from Houston, Texas, has successfully tested its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) ultimately aimed at allowing travel at four to six times the speed of ...