Detonation failure in small cylindrical LX17 charges

Proceedings - 14th International Detonation Symposium, IDS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1219-1228

  Thomas Lorenz, K ^a   Hare, David E ^a   Vitello, Peter ^a   Clark Souers, P ^b   Chambers, Ron ^b   Lee, Edward L ^a  

^a Energetic Materials Center   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL CHARGES; EMBEDDED FIBERS; FAILURE DIAMETERS; MODEL PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL PRECISION; TESTING CONDITIONS; TRANSITION TIME; WAVEFRONT VELOCITY;

SHOCK WAVES;

DETONATION;

EID: 84883380100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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15. More recent work suggests that these simulations are not fully converged. A recent simulation performed at 160 zones/cm shows a significantly improved fit to the data. However, the simulations performed at 80 zones/cm are sufficient to adequately address the remaining points in this paper.