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Caption: Figure 2.
Snapshots of realization 2 just after one (left) and then another (right) detonation were ignited at the specified transition density of 1.26 × 10 7 g cm −3 (green contour). The reaction progress variable representing carbon burning is in color. The detonating regions are the rapidly expanding regions of completely burned carbon ahead of the plume.
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