An Elementary Model for A Self-Accelerating Outward Propagating Flame Subject to the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability: Transition to Detonation

Within the Boussinesq approximation, an elementary model for the deflagration-to- detonation transition triggered by self-acceleration of an expanding flame is formulated and explored. The self-acceleration is sustained by the intrinsic Rayleigh–Taylor instability until the Deshaies–Joulin deflagrab...

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Main Authors: Leonid Kagan, Gregory Sivashinsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Fluids
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/5/4/196