Detonation (from Latin detonare 'to thunder down/forth') is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium...

Explosive velocity, also known as detonation velocity or velocity of detonation (VoD), is the velocity at which the shock wave front travels through a...

compilation of published detonation velocities for various high explosive compounds. Detonation velocity is the speed with which the detonation shock wave travels...

Staged detonation is an overall principle used for many explosive devices. A general description of the principle is that one explosive compound with one...

its own detonation wave. The procedure involves the detonation of a series of charges of different diameters until difficulty in detonation wave propagation...

In spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the...

A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel...

A pulse detonation engine (PDE) is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed...

Deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) refers to a phenomenon in ignitable mixtures of a flammable gas and air (or oxygen) when a sudden transition...

Look up detonation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Detonation is a process of combustion in which a supersonic shock wave propagates through a body...