We present a new, fully conservative version of the ghost fluid method applicable for tracking material interfaces, inert shocks, and both deflagration and detonation waves in as many as three spatial dimensions. The exact discrete conservation properties are most important when tracking inert shocks and detonation waves, so that is the focus of this paper. In particular, we address the invisci...

An algorithm was developed that uses measured isotopic ratios from fission product residue following the detonation of a nuclear weapon to compute the original attributes of the nuclear material used in the weapon. While more accurate (and more computationally intensive) methods are being explored by others, the method described here could serve as a preprocessing step to a more detailed method...

Seven novel energetic 4,7-dinitro-furazano-[3,4-d]-pyridazine derivatives were designed, and their optimized structures and performances were studied by density functional theory (DFT) at B3LYP/6-311g(d,p) level. The detonation performances were estimated by the Kamlet-Jacobs equations. The results show that these compounds have high crystal densities (1.8181.925 g·cm−3), detonation velocities ...

A multidimensional implementation of DSD, formulated with the level set method, is applied to track the propagation of a detonation wave in a heterogeneous explosive consisting of an array of inert cylindrical obstacles with a liquid explosive in the interstitial space. With the Huygens assumption, the average detonation velocity through the explosive is less than that for the liquid explosive ...

A unique and facile method was developed to synthesize a new class of energetic salts based on 2-amino-1,1,5,5-tetranitro-4-oxo-3-aza-pentene. All the salts were fully characterized by NMR (1H and 13C), IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. Furthermore, the crystal structure of the guanidinium salt (5) was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The differential scanning calorimetry (...

Design of energetic materials is an exciting area in mechanics and materials science. Energetic composite materials are used as propellants, explosives and fuel cell components. Energy release in these materials are accompanied by extreme events: shock waves travel at typical speeds of several thousand meters per second and the peak pressures can reach hundreds of gigapascals. In this paper, we...

Abstract This paper analyzes A.K. Oppenheim’s original works on the transition of deflagration to detonation and reviews them from perspective new numerical experimental results recently obtained such phenomena. Particular attention is focused processes happening in boundary layer tube walls ahead accelerating flame. The theoretical analyses temperature variations inside developing are presente...

An optical system has been redesigned and used to measure detonation velocity as a function of condensed explosive density for RDX, HMX, PETN. These measurements are then used to determine and fine tune parameters appearing in the BKW (Beker-Kistiakowsky-Wilson) equation of state for gases at extremely high pressures. Steady state form of conservation equations along with the BKW state equation...

We study the conversion of neutron matter into strange matter as a detonation wave. The detonation is assumed to originate from a central region in a spherically symmetric background of neutrons with a varying radial density distribution. We present self-similar solutions for the propagation of detonation in static and collapsing backgrounds of neutron matter. The solutions are obtained in the ...