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This paper presents the results of two large-scale tests performed to clarify the conditions for the detonation of propane-air compositions in model surface clouds in the absence and in the presence of confining rigid walls. Model clouds with dimensions of 15 × 6 × 4.2 and 15 × 6 × 2 m were confined by plastic tents. A mixture of the starting reagents in the cloud was ignited by hot detonation products propagating along a perforated ø0.82 × 23 m tube passing through the space of the tent. Hot detonation products were injected from the tube through holes of 20 and 40 mm diameters. Detonation of the propane-air mixture in the tube was initiated by explosion of an explosive charge placed at the tube end. Detonation occurred in the propane-air cloud bounded on one side by a rigid vertical wall, and no detonation was observed in the cloud with similar injection of hot products without a rigid wall. It is concluded that the divergence or convergence of the flows of hot detonation products plays a key role in the process, being responsible for the presence or absence of detonation, respectively, in the mixing region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]