Research ondeflagration todetonation transition (DDT), detonation and related phenomena is relevant to a number of applications including industrial safety, super-knock in internal combustion engine andpropulsion. Because of their great potential for structural damage, uncontrolled DDT and detonation might lead to dramatic events such as large scale destruction, human fatalities, and environmental pollution. Detonation also has a great impact on technological development. In internal combustion engine, the occurrence ofsuper-knock detonation is the main limitation to the development of more efficient and environmentally friendly high-energy density engine. On the other end, the extraordinary power of detonation may be employed to drive the aircraft of the future using pulsed and rotative detonation engine. At the CCE, both fundamental experimental andnumerical studies are performed in order to better understand DDT and detonation. Recent efforts on detonation have focused on the structure anddynamics of detonation with complex energy release profiles such as low-temperature affected detonation.

Faculty in this area:Chung K. Law, Wenkai Liang, Damir Valiev