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An Elementary Model for a Self-Accelerating Outward Propagating Flame Subject to the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability: Transition to Detonation by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…Within the Boussinesq approximation, an elementary model for the deflagration-to-detonation transition triggered by self-acceleration of an expanding flame is…”
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Diffusive-thermal instabilities in premixed flames: Stepwise ignition-temperature kinetics by Brailovsky, Irina, Gordon, Peter V., Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…This study is motivated by the observation that in combustion of hydrogen–oxygen/air and ethylene–oxygen mixtures the global activation energy appears to be…”
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On the Transition from Deflagration to Detonation in Narrow Tubes by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The paper is an extension of our recent work on the deflagration-to-detonation transition in narrow channels over the transition in narrow circular tubes under…”
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The de Broglie soliton as a localized excitation of the action function by Sivashinsky, Gregory I.

“…Guided by the formal analogy between the classical relativistic Hamilton–Jacobi equation and the dynamic equation for the premixed gas flame, a new class of…”
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An elementary model for autoignition of laminar jets by Gordon, Peter V., Gotti, Daniel J., Hegde, Uday G., Hicks, Michael C., Kulis, Michael J., Sivashinsky, Gregory I.

“…In this paper, we formulate and analyse an elementary model for autoignition of cylindrical laminar jets of fuel injected into an oxidizing ambient at rest…”
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Effect of the central gravitational field on self-accelerating outward propagating flames subjected to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Transition to detonation by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…Within the Boussinesq approximation an elementary model for the deflagration-to-detonation transition triggered by self-acceleration of an expanding flame in a…”
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Flame propagation through a spatially periodic shear flow: Extinction vs. transition to detonation by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The problem of flame propagation through a spatially periodic shear flow is revisited. When the flow intensity exceeds a certain critical level the corrugated…”
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Transition to detonation of an expanding spherical flame by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…With a freely expanding unwrinkled spherical flame as an example, it is shown that deflagration-to-detonation transition in unconfined gaseous systems is…”
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Parametric transition from deflagration to detonation: Runaway of fast flames by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The paper is concerned with identification of the key interactions controlling deflagration-to-detonation transition in confined and unconfined gaseous…”
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A reduced model for a self-accelerating expanding flame subjected to the Darrieus-Landau and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities: Transition to detonation by Kagan, Leonid, Gordon, Peter V., Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…A weakly nonlinear model for a self-accelerating outward propagating corrugated flame is formulated and explored. The self-acceleration is sustained by the…”
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Deflagration-to-detonation transition in an unconfined space: Expanding hydrogen-oxygen flames by Koksharov, Andrey, Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The problem of deflagration-to-detonation transition in an unconfined environment is revisited. With a freely expanding self-accelerating fractal-like…”
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Modeling of 2D self-drifting flame-balls in Hele-Shaw cells by Yanez, Jorge, Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory, Kuznetsov, Mike

“…The disintegration of near limit flames propagating through the gap of Hele-Shaw cells has recently become a subject of active research. In this paper, the…”
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Deflagration-to-detonation transition in an unconfined space by Koksharov, Andrey, Bykov, Viatcheslav, Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…Whereas deflagration-to-detonation transition in confined systems is a matter of common knowledge, feasibility of the transition in unconfined space is still a…”
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Parametric transition from deflagration to detonation revisited: Planar geometry by Gordon, Peter V., Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The paper is concerned with identification of the key mechanisms controlling deflagration-to-detonation transition in confined and unconfined gaseous systems…”
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Deflagration-to-detonation transition in narrow channels: hydraulic resistance versus flame folding by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…This paper is concerned with the identification of the key interactions controlling the deflagration-to-detonation transition in narrow smooth-walled channels…”
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On dynamics of gasless combustion in slowly varying periodic media by Matson, Amanda, Kagan, Leonid, Brauner, Claude-Michel, Sivashinsky, Gregory, Gordon, Peter V.

“…In this paper we consider a classical model of gasless combustion in a one dimensional formulation under the assumption of ignition temperature kinetics. We…”
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Pressure diffusivity and low-velocity detonation by Gordon, Peter V, Sivashinsky, Gregory I

“…The mechanism controlling occurrence of the low-velocity denotation in obstacle-laden systems is discussed. A quasi-one-dimensional model where the impact of…”
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Hydrodynamic aspects of end-gas autoignition by Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…Within the small-Mach-number approximation, employing an appropriate scale-separation procedure, a reduced zero-dimensional model for deflagrative combustion…”
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On disintegration of near-limit cellular flames by Frankel, Michael L, Gordon, Peter V, Sivashinsky, Gregory I

“…A strongly non-linear geometrically-invariant model for the dynamics of near-limit cellular flame is proposed, where the flame evolution is governed by a…”
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Modeling of Thermonuclear Fusion Flames: Parametric Transition to Detonation by Gordon, Peter V., Kagan, Leonid, Sivashinsky, Gregory

“…The paper is concerned with the identification of the key mechanisms controlling deflagration-to-detonation transition in a stellar medium. The issue of…”
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