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In this study, gaseous detonation diffraction from an annular channel was investigated with a streak camera and the critical pressure for transmission of the detonation wave was obtained. The annular channel was used to approximate an infinite slot resulting in cylindrically expanding detonation waves. Two mixtures, stoichiometric acetylene–oxygen and stoichiometric acetylene–oxygen with 70% Ar dilution, were tested in a 4.3 and 14.3 mm channel width (W). The undiluted and diluted mixtures were found to have values of the critical channel width over the cell size around 3 and 12 respectively. Comparing these results to values of the critical diameter (d c ), in which a spherical detonation occurs, a value of critical d c /W c near 2 is observed for the highly diluted mixture. This value corresponds to the geometrical factor of the curvature term between a spherical and cylindrical diverging wave. Hence, the result is in support of Lee’s proposed mechanism [Lee in Dynamics of Exothermicity, pp. 321, Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, 1996] for failure due to diffraction based on curvature in stable mixtures such as those highly argon diluted with very regular detonation cellular patterns.
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Communicated by S. Dorofeev.
This paper is based on work that was presented at the 22nd International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Minsk, Belarus, July 27–31, 2009.
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Meredith, J., Ng, H.D. & Lee, J.H.S. Detonation diffraction from an annular channel. Shock Waves 20, 449–455 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-010-0256-0
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