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Detonations are a complex spatial-temporal unstable phenomenon. In theory, the complete dynamics of this phenomenon requires a time-dependent multidimensional solution that describes the inherent instability of the detonation wave. The effect of instability is a fundamental factor on the dynamic behavior of detonation waves and thus governs practical properties of an explosive mixture such as detonation limits, critical tube diameter, or initiation energy.

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The authors would like to extend full gratitude to many colleagues, particularly Gary Sharpe, Matei Radulescu, Mark Short, Charles Kiyanda, Andrew Higgins, Ashwani K. Kapila, Nikos Nikiforakis, and John Lee, for their valuable advice, assistance, and numerous fruitful discussions on the field of detonation physics and scientific computing.

This chapter contains figures reprinted from Radulescu et al. (2007), Short and Stewart (1998), Eckett et al. (2000), Austin (2003), Henrick et al. (2006), Sharpe and Radulescu (2011), Voitsekhovskii et al. (1958), Davidenko et al. (2011), Sharpe and Falle (2000), Watt and Sharpe (2004, 2005), Soloukhin (1966), Jiang et al. (2009), Asahara et al. (2010). The authors gratefully acknowledge Matei Radulescu, Mark Short, Joanna Austin, Gary Sharpe, Ann Karagozian, Joseph Powers, Tariq Aslam, Rmy Mvel and Jean-Philippe Dionne for sharing their figures and data in this chapter.

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