Computational study of 3-D hot-spot initiation in shocked insensitive high-explosive

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1426, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-258

  Najjar, F M ^a   Howard, W M ^a   Fried, L E ^a   Manaa, M R ^a   Nichols III, A ^a   Levesque, G ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALE3D; Cheetah; Hydrodynamics; pore collapse; reactive flow; shocked TATB

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861971770     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3686267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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