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The paper reviews recent progress in the field of gaseous detonations, with sections on shock diffraction and reflection, the transition to detonation, hybrid, spherically-imploding, and galloping and stuttering fronts, their structure, their transmission and quenching by additives, the critical energy for initiation and detonation of more unusual fuels. The final section points out areas where our understanding is still far from being complete and contains some suggestions of ways in which progress might be made.
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Received 9 September 1999 / Accepted 10 May 2001
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Nettleton, M. Recent work on gaseous detonations. Shock Waves 12, 3–12 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001930200134
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001930200134