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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.

Here are some of the images and movies from the 3D 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:

As a function of spatial resolution:	0.2 cm	0.1 cm	0.05 cm
Movies at 0.05 cm resolution:	4.6MB quicktime	6.7MB quicktime	7.5MB quicktime
As a function of dimensionality:	2D slice z midplane	2D slice, y midplane	2D calculation
Maximum pressure (cellular patterns):	5.4MB quicktime	6.8MB quicktime	6.8MB quicktime

Ashes of the burn (silicon):

As a function of spatial resolution:	0.2 cm	0.1 cm	0.05 cm
Movies at 0.05 cm resolution:	8.6MB quicktime	8.3MB quicktime	6.5MB quicktime
As a function of dimensionality:	2D slice, z midplane	2D slice, y midplane	2D calculation