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An ideal detonation wave is defined here as a shock moving through a material which releases sufficient energy immediately behind the front to allow the shock to be self sustaining. All of the energy is released at the shock front, no further chemical reactions take place. The shock thickness, that is, the distance between ambient conditions and the peak pressure is the order of a few molecular mean free paths.
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Needham, C.E. (2018). Ideal High Explosive Detonation Waves. In: Blast Waves. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65382-2_5
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