Detonation wave of condensation

In a number of recent studies by the authors, a new physical phenomenon has been discovered and investigated in detail — the formation of a detonation wave during the condensation of highly supersaturated carbon vapor. The essence of the phenomenon is that an initiating shock wave propagating through an exothermic carbon compound (for example, carbon suboxide C 3 O 2 or acetylene C 2 H 2 ), as a result of its rapid dissociation, yields a highly...