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Congratulations to Brian Maxwell

I am extremely enthusiastic to report that Brian Maxwell, my first PhD student has now started as an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. 

Detonation dynamics with mass divergence

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Our paper on detonation dynamics with constant lateral strain rate is now published .  This is the first time, in my opinion, where a meaningful comparison with the first principles predictions of the steady ZND model can be made.  Cellular detonations are more robust that laminar ones:  the turbulent cellular structure helps in their propagation. More to come from Qiang Xiao on this subject.