Current Research
Spinning Dentonation Professer Kurosaka is in collaboration with the detonation team of Professor D. Desbordes, ENSMA, Poitiers, France.
Spinning detonation is a phenomenon where a detonation-front induced by a shock spins spontaneously in a tube. Since this is a limit of detonation, it is an area of crucial importance for safety and security. Although the phenomenon itself has been known long, the reason why the front spins is dimly understood. We are trying to pin down this mechanism by investigating from the view point of vortex dynamics.