Investigation of a Reusable Fuel-Air Explosive Nuclear Airblast Simulator.

Abstract

Development requirements relating to a reusable, one-kiloton level nuclear airblast simulator using fuel-air explosives is being investigated. The simulator concept is that of a large liquid fuel dispenser, comprising a cluster of radially-directed nozzles. An appropriate fuel would be impulsively injected through this nozzle cluster and the hemispherically-shaped fuel-air cloud so formed would then be detonated. During the contract period reported, work progressed in three areas. These are: the design of an experimental, full-scale single-nozzle dispenser; an initial investigation of the sources of secondary compression waves n fuel-air explosions; and improvements in data acquisition procedures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA149473

Entities

People

  • M. A. Groethe
  • R. T. Sedgwick
  • T. H. Pierce

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Explosions
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Explosives Initiators
  • Fuel Air Explosives
  • Ignition
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Software Engineering