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The results of experimental studies of the structure of the reaction zone for steady-state detonation of nitromethane and its mixtures with methanol. For pure nitromethane, the characteristic reaction time and detonation parameters were determined. For a nitromethane/methanol mixture, a dependence of the detonation parameters of the mixtures on methanol concentration is presented. It is shown that in pure nitromethane and with small additions of methanol, the detonation front is stable, or the size of the inhomogeneities of the front is less than 1 m. At a methanol concentration of 10% or higher, instability of the front is observed.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Utkin, V.M. Mochalova, V.A. Garanin.
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Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 115–121, May–June, 2012.
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Utkin, A.V., Mochalova, V.M. & Garanin, V.A. Structure of detonation waves in nitromethane and a nitromethane/methanol mixture. Combust Explos Shock Waves 48, 350–355 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010508212030136
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