Temperature Measurements of an Implosion Focus

Abstract

Spectroscopic temperature measurements were made at the focal point of imploding shock waves in the UTIAS implosion chamber, which has a 20-cm diameter hemispherical cavity. The chamber was filled with a stoichiometric H2- O2 gas mixture at different initial pressures (14 approx 68 atm). The mixture was ignited at the origin by an exploding wire generating an outgoing detonation wave which reflected at the camber wall as an imploding shock wave (gas-runs). Additional experiments where an explosive shell of PETN was placed at the hemispherical wall were also conducted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADP000254

Entities

People

  • A. K. Kudian
  • Irvine I. Glass
  • Toshie Saito

Organizations

  • University of Toronto

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Color Temperature
  • Combustion
  • Detonation Waves
  • Detonations
  • Emissivity
  • Equations
  • Exploding Wires
  • Explosives
  • High Pressure
  • Ignition
  • Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.