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These 2D and 3D cellular detonation calculations won the Gordon Bell Prize at Supercomputing 2000. Here is the winning paper bell.pdf, and its science journal form cell2d.pdf.

Here are some of the images and movies from the 2D runs.
The composition is pure carbon and the density is 1e7 g/cm**3.
A real detonation has a rich cellular structure quite unlike the simple 1D picture.

Main Features:

Basic 1D picture

What happens in 2D & 3D

Pressure:

Initial conditions	Gone cellular
Unresolved Pressure	Resolved Pressure
Pressure movie 9.5MB quicktime	Pressure + grid movie 14.2MB quicktime
Unresolved Max Presure	Resolved Max Presure

Max pressure movie
9.4MB quicktime

Temperature, Fuel (carbon), and Ashes (silicon)

Unresolved Temperature	Resolved Temperature
Unresolved Carbon	Resolved Carbon
Unresolved Silicon	Resolved Silicon
Silicon movie 13.5MB quicktime	Silicon + grid movie 18.0MB quicktime