Stability of detonation in a circular pipe with porous walls

Carlos Chiquete, Anatoli Tumin

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Abstract

A stability analysis is carried out taking into account slightly porous walls in an idealized detonation confined to a circular pipe. The analysis is carried out using the normalmode approach and corrections are obtained to the underlying impenetrable wall case results to account for the effect of the slight porosity. The porous walls are modelled by an acoustic boundary condition for the perturbations linking the normal velocity and the pressure components and thus replacing the conventional no-penetration boundary condition at the wall. This new boundary condition necessarily complicates the derivation of the stability problem with respect to the impenetrable wall case. However, exploiting the expressly slight porosity, the modified temporal stability can be determined as a two-point boundary value problem similar to the case of a non-porous wall.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)668-688
Number of pages21
JournalPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume370
Issue number1960
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 13 2012

Keywords

  • Detonation
  • Linear stability
  • Normal mode
  • Porous wall

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • General Engineering
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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