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Chemistry and phase transitions from hypervelocity impacts

Conference ·
OSTI ID:107038
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  1. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC (United States); and others

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study hypervelocity impacts of an ultrathin flyer plate with a semi-infinite two-dimensional model diatomic molecular solid. The authors show that these hypervelocity impacts can produce a dissociative phase transition from a molecular to a close-packed solid in the target material. It is also shown that hypervelocity impacts of ultrathin plates can produce extensive chemical reactions leading to a detonation accompanied by a phase transition in an energetic version of the model.

OSTI ID:
107038
Report Number(s):
CONF-9402143--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English