Modeling PBX 9501 overdriven release experiments
High Explosives (HE) performs work by the expansion of its detonation products. Along with the propagation of the detonation wave, the equation of state (EOS) of the products determines the HE performance in an engineering system. The authors show the failure of the standard Jones-Wilkins-Lee (JWL) equation of state (EOS) in modeling the overdriven release experiments of PBX 9501. The deficiency can be tracked back to inability of the same EOS in matching the shock pressure and the sound speed on the Hugoniot in the hydrodynamic regime above the Chapman-Jouguet pressure. After adding correction terms to the principal isentrope of the standard JWL EOS, the authors are able to remedy this shortcoming and the simulation was successful.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 541820
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--97-2855; CONF-970707--; ON: DE98000831
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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