Аннотация:Experimental investigation of unstable detonation front structure in mixtures
of liquid high explosives (nitromethane and bis-(2- fluor-2.2-dinitroethyl)-formal (FEFO))
with inert diluents (acetone, methanol, diethylene triamine (DETA)) has been carried out.
Inhomogeneities have been registered by electro-optical camera NANOGATE 4BP allowing to
make 4 frames with the exposure time 10 nanoseconds. According to experimental results the
detonation front in nitromethane/acetone mixture is unstable. It is evident that pulsations
on detonation front do not form spatial periodic structure and their dimensions differ several
times. But mean longitudinal size of pulsation is about 500 micron at 20 percents of acetone
concentration. This means that the typical size of cell equals to reaction zone width. The
same structure of cellular front have been registered in 70/30 FEFO/methanol mixture. Second
kind of instability, failure waves, was observed in neat nitromethane at the free surface. In this
case the stability loss result in turbulent flow which is clearly detected in the shots obtained.
Adding small amount of DETA (0.5 percent) results in disappearance of the failure waves and
flow stabilization. The effect is caused by the fact that DETA sharply accelerates initial rate of
chemical reaction because it is sensitizer for nitromethane.