If you wish to define undetonable material as a detonation supressor,
sure. It isn't what I said, but you know that.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you asserting that a detonation began, encountered a detonation
suppressor, and was successfully suppressed?
-R
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WRT detonation, there is such a beast as a deflagration-to-detonation
transition, and people put a lot of work into preventing or postponing
that
transition. No one talks about reversing it. My understanding is that if
you
have a detonable mixture, and a detonation begins, it continues until
the
mixture is consumed.
There's been a ton of work on the reverse, they're called detonation
supressors. For when you want fire with less boom.
A detonation in that fuel/lox mixture would indeed stop when it ran
out of detonable mixture. The bulk LOX and bulk kerosene are not
individually detonable.
Ben
