Toward Detonation Theory

1 Advantages and Limitations of Chapman-Jouguet and Zeldovich-Von Neumann-Döring Detonation Physical Models.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Chapman-Jouguet Detonation.- 1.3 Zeldovich-Von Neumann-Döring Detonation.- 1.4 Breakdown Phenomenon.- 2 Shock Initiation of Detonation and Breakdown Phenomena.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Liquid Explosives Shock-to-Detonation Transition Process and Breakdown Phenomena.- 2.2.1 Experimental.- 2.2.2 Chaiken's Hypothesis and Its Verification.- 2.2.3 Degenerated Adiabatic Thermal Explosion at the Interface.- 2.2.4 On Limiting Conditions of Shock-to-Detonation Transition in Liquid Explosives.- 2.3 On Shock Initiation of Detonation in Solid Explosives.- 2.3.1 Hot Spots Nature of Reaction Origin and Progress in Heterogeneous Explosives.- 2.3.2 Association of Regularities of Energy Release by Hot Spots Mechanism and Change of Initiating Shock Wave Profile.- 2.3.3 Limit Condition for Shock-to-Detonation Transition in Heterogeneous Explosives.- 2.3.4 Change with Shock Pressure of Transformation Mechanism of Heterogeneous Explosives.- 3 Detonation Kinetic Instability and Breakdown Phenomena.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Mechanism of Instability Origin.- 3.3 Mechanism of Unstable Detonation Front Inhomogeneity Control.- 3.4 Structure of a Highly Unstable Detonation Front.- 3.5 Unstable-to-Stable Detonation Transition.- 3.6 Comparison of Pulsating and One-Dimensional Models of Detonation Front.- 3.7 The Nature of Spinning and Galloping Detonations.- 4 Failure Diameter and Breakdown Phenomena.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Failure Diameter of Detonation of Liquid Explosives.- 4.2.1 Introduction.- 4.2.2 Failure Diameter of the Unstable Detonation of Liquid Explosives.- 4.2.3 Limits of Propagation of Unstable Detonation in Metal Tubes.- 4.2.4 Failure Diameter of Stable Detonation of Liquid Explosives.- 4.2.5 Dependence of Liquid Explosive Detonation Failure Diameter on Initial Temperature.- 4.2.6 Propagation of Detonation of Liquid Explosives Along a Thin-Walled Metal Tube Surrounded by the Same Explosive.- 4.2.7 Conclusion: Failure Diameter of Detonation of Liquid Explosives.- 4.3 Failure Diameter of Detonation of Condensed Heterogeneous Explosives.- 4.3.1 Introduction.- 4.3.2 On the Michailyuk-Trofimov Theory of the Detonation Failure Diameter of Condensed Heterogeneous Explosives.- 4.3.3 Conclusion: Failure Diameter of Detonation of Heterogeneous Explosives.- 4.4 Conclusions.- 5 On Shock Wave Chemistry of Molecular Condensed Explosives.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Results and Discussion.- 5.3 Conclusions.- 6 General Conclusion.- References.