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Characterization of initiation and detonation by Lagrange gage techniques. Final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7057230· OSTI ID:7057230

The theoretical work in this report is concerned with a reactive flow Lagrange analysis (RFLA) for shocked explosives that was formulated and developed at SRI International and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This RFLA takes a set of Lagrange particle velocity and pressure histories recorded in shocked explosive as input and calculates the flow fields in the explosive and its global rate of decomposition. A similarity solution modeling a type of initiation observed in PBX9404 and incorporating a realistic description of shocked explosive was constructed to provide a means of testing the computational procedures used in the RFLA. These procedures and the RFLA were validated in test calculations performed with the similarity solution at LLNL.

Research Organization:
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
7057230
Report Number(s):
UCRL-15482; ON: DE83001129
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English