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Detonation Physics

Detonation Physics is a branch of applied physics that studies the propagation and energy release characteristics of supersonic shock waves in reactive media, distinguished by its focus on the fundamental mechanisms governing explosive decomposition and pressure wave dynamics in controlled blasting environments.

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272

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Publications

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Chemistry of Detonations. I. A Simple Method for Calculating Detonation Properties of C–H–N–O Explosives

Mortimer J. Kamlet, Sigmund J. Jacobs · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1968 · 1.5K citations

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Pulse detonation propulsion: challenges, current status, and future perspective

G. D. Roy, S.M. Frolov, David W. Netzer · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science · 2004 · 880 citations

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X. A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high, explosives or by the impact of bullets

Bertram Hopkinson · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1914 · 759 citations

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Rotating Detonation Wave Propulsion: Experimental Challenges, Modeling, and Engine Concepts

Frank Lu, Eric Braun · Journal of Propulsion and Power · 2014 · 625 citations

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Dynamic Parameters of Gaseous Detonations

J H S Lee · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 1984 · 514 citations

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Authors

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  1. HD
    Hoi Dick Ng

    Concordia University, Canada

    20 publications · 859 citations

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  2. SI
    Scott I. Jackson

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

    17 publications · 556 citations

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  3. JE
    J. E. Shepherd

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    19 publications · 887 citations

    14

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  4. JH
    John H. S. Lee

    McGill University, Canada

    14 publications · 681 citations

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  5. MS
    Mark Short

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States

    13 publications · 296 citations

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Institutions

604

  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    31 h-index

    222 publications

    10.3K citations

  2. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    28 h-index

    93 publications

    4.6K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    24 h-index

    103 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. Beijing Institute of Technology

    Beijing, China

    24 h-index

    101 publications

    3K citations

  5. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    19 h-index

    49 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Livermore, United States

    19 h-index

    150 publications

    4.1K citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    19 h-index

    53 publications

    2.6K citations

  8. Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics

    Novosibirsk, Russia

    18 h-index

    57 publications

    1.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Combustion and Flame

    99 publications · 4.5K citations

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  2. Shock Waves

    80 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

    46 publications · 2.1K citations

    28

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  4. Combustion Explosion and Shock Waves

    78 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. Journal of Applied Physics

    47 publications · 2.3K citations

    26

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