Reactive Gas Phase Compression Due to Shock-Induced Cavity Collapse in Energetic Materials

Abstract

A mesoscale simulation is carried out to examine shock-initiation due to gas phase reaction at site of cylindrical pore within an HMX crystal. The focus here is to investigate viscoplastic heating with gas pore compression that leads to chemical reactions within the gas phase. Systems of conservation laws for both solid and gas phases are solved along with species conservation from a reduced set of chemical kinetic model. Mass, momentum, and energy transfer between phases are applied explicitly at the solid-gas interface using physical boundary conditions, thus avoiding empiricism of mixture multiphase formulation. These transfer processes are critical in the Mach stem formation around the collapsing reacting gas pore.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469925

Entities

People

  • Linhbao Tran

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Collapse
  • Compression
  • Endothermic Reactions
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Explosives
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Explosives
  • Hot Spots
  • Materials
  • Plastic Bonded Explosives
  • Reactive Gases

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Materials Science and Engineering.