Requirements for Initiation and Sustained Propagation of Fuel-Air Explosives

Abstract

CONTENTS: Requirements for Initiation and Sustained Propagation of Fuel-air Explosives; Measurements of Cell Size in Hydrocarbon-air Mixtures and Predictions of Critical Tube Diameter, Critical Initiation Energy, and Detonability Limits; Effect of Geometry on the Transmission of Detonation through an Orifice; Large-Scale Experiments on the Transmission of Fuel-air Detonations from Two-Dimensional Channels; Diffraction of Detonation from Tubes into a Large Fuel-air Explosive cloud; Dynamic Parameters of Gaseous Detonations; High-speed Turbulent Deflagrations and Transition to Detonation in H2-Air Mixtures. Keywords: Reprints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA162301

Entities

People

  • A. Sulmistras
  • C. Guirao
  • Jeong Hyo Lee
  • R. Knystautas

Organizations

  • McGill University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Ignition
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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