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The most significant feature of flow fields generated by explosions is the existence of gasdynamic discontinuities. In the analysis they appear in the form of shocks waves, detonations and deflagrations, as well as some simple waves, especially rarefactions, that is continuous flow regions whose extent in the physical time-space domain is small enough, in comparison to the whole flow field under consideration, so that they can be treated effectively as discontinuities.
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Oppenheim, A.K. (1970). Gasdynamic Discontinuities. In: Introduction to Gasdynamics of Explosions. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4364-3_3
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