The goal of the LAGUNA experimental series of the Los Alamos National Laboratory TRAILMASTER program is to accelerate an annular aluminum plasma z-pinch to greater than one hundred kilojoules of implosion kinetic energy. To accomplish this, an electrical pulse )5.5 MA must be delivered to a 20 nH load in ~1 ~s. The pulsed power system for these experiments consists of a capacitor bank for initi...

We present a numerical investigation of the tidal disruption of white dwarfs by moderately massive black holes, with particular reference to the centers of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters. Special attention is given to the fate of white dwarfs of all masses that approach the black hole close enough to be disrupted and severely compressed to such extent that explosive nuclear burning can be...

Two macro-scale models of high-energy, condensed-phase explosives are considered. The first, called ignition and growth, treats the heterogeneous explosive as a homogeneous mixture of reacting and product species. The second model treats the explosive as two distinct, but interacting, phases. Both models are hyperbolic systems of nonlinear partial differential equations involving balance laws o...

Size reduction of high energy materials such as 1, 3, 5, 7-tetranitro- 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraaza cyclooctane (HMX) has considerable influences on improving their explosive characteristics. In this study, nanosized HMX par‌ticles were produced using ultrasonically reprecipitation method by applying water as a safe and accessible antisolvent instead of unsafe conventional methods. SEM photographs revea...

equal channel angular rolling (ecar) is a severe plastic deformation method that covered plasticdeformation of sheets. in this study, effects of ecar route shave been investigated on themechanical and microstructure properties of explosive-welded al-cu bimetal. at first, the explosivewelding process has been performed to prepare the al-cu bimetals. then, to relieve the stress andpreparing of sa...