Summary of Work on Initiation, Combustion and Transition to Detonation in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Reactive Mixtures.

Abstract

The research deals with the broad topics of initiation, combustion and transition to detonation in homogeneous and heterogeneous reactive mixtures. One specific area deals with analytical and experimental work directed to direct initiation of detonation by a nonideal blast wave in chemically sensitized reactive fuel-air clouds. The other specific topic involves the hydrodynamic modelling of ignition and flamespreading in granular energetic solids to predict the potential for deflagration-to-detonation (DDT).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA059047

Entities

People

  • Harold O. Barthel
  • Herman Krier
  • Roger A. Strehlow

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Blast Waves
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Pressure
  • Ignition
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Solid Propellants
  • Two Phase Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Rocket Propulsion.