TY  - VIDEO
AU  - Elaine Oran
TI  - Detonation !
JO  - AIAA Journal Seminars
Y1  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/08
PB  - Cassyni
UR  - https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.rcx2jr
Y2  - 2026/04/04
AB  - A detonation is an explosion driven by energy released behind a leading shock wave traveling through a background of energetic material. It is the strongest form of combustion wave, travels orders of magnitude faster than a flame, and once it is started, it is difficult to impossible to contain until all of the fuel is consumed. Detonations may occur naturally, accidentally, and purposefully where there are energetic materials present. The highly destructive accidental detonations that occurred in large fuel storage plants, such Buncefield in the UK and Jaipur in India, lasted about two seconds. Naturally occurring detonations in Type Ia supernovae, which burn nuclear Carbon-12 to Oxygen-16, are finished in about two seconds. This presentation compresses the last 100 years’ of detonation-focused research into a brief review of some of the most important concepts. This review opens up a number of important and intriguing problems in reactive-flow physics that still need to be addressed. Finally we describe the new Detonation Research Test Facility that will be used to address some of these unresolved questions. 
DO  - 10.52843/cassyni.rcx2jr
ER  -