Credit: Credit:
Charles Bacon, Argonne National Laboratory; Alexei Khokhlov, University of Chicago; Joanna Austin and Andrew Knisely, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
For one of the Theta ESP projects, University of Chicago scientist Alexei Khokhlov will continue his research into the deflagration-to-detonation transition process in hydrogen-oxygen mixtures. This image from a previous INCITE project shows weak ignition behind a reflected Mach=1.5 shock in a stoichiometric hydrogen-oxygen mixture at 0.1 atm initial pressure.