CHAPTER 1 - THE DETONATION WAVE
1.1. Steady-State Detonations ................................... 1
1.2. Resolved Reaction Zone Detonations in One Dimension ........ 4
1.3. Two-Dimensional Reaction Zones of Homogeneous
Explosives ................................................ 18
1.4. Discussion of Reaction Zones of Homogeneous Explosives .... 21
1.5. Three-Dimensional Reaction Zones of Heterogeneous
Explosives ................................................ 22
CHAPTER 2 - PERFORMANCE OF EXPLOSIVES AND PROPELLANTS
2.1. Steady-State Detonations .................................. 31
2.2. Nonideal Detonations ...................................... 64
2.3. Nonsteady-State Detonations ............................... 90
2.4. Nitrogen Oxide ........................................... 114
2.5. Carbon Condensation ...................................... 118
2.6. CNO Explosives ........................................... 124
2.7. Density .................................................. 125
2.8. Propellant Performance ................................... 126
2.9. Russian Nonsteady-State Detonation Studies ............... 130
2.10.Craig Decay Zones ........................................ 138
2.11.Conclusions .............................................. 139
CHAPTER 3 - INITIATION OF DETONATION
3.1. Thermal Initiation ....................................... 146
3.2. Shock Initiation of Homogeneous Explosives ............... 155
3.3. Shock Initiation of Heterogeneous Explosives ............. 172
CHAPTER 4 - MODELING INITIATION OF HETEROGENEOUS EXPLOSIVES
4.1. The Forest Fire Model .................................... 200
4.2. Heterogeneous Detonations ................................ 209
4.3. Desensitization by Preshocking ........................... 223
4.4. Projectile Initiation of Explosives ...................... 230
4.5. Burning to Detonation .................................... 237
CHAPTER 5 - INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS
5.1. Plane-Wave Experiments ................................... 248
5.2. Explosions in Water ...................................... 251
5.3. The Plate Dent Experiment ................................ 261
5.4. The Cylinder Test ........................................ 265
5.5. Jet Penetration of Inerts and Explosives ................. 268
5.6. Plane Wave Lens .......................................... 278
5.7. Regular and Mach Reflection of Detonation Waves .......... 281
5.8. Insensitive High Explosive Initiators .................... 289
CHAPTER 6 - NOBEL AND PRad
6.1. Fifty Year History ....................................... 307
6.2. The NOBEL Code ........................................... 308
6.3. Proton Radiography (PRad) ................................ 311
6.4. Colliding Diverging PBX-9502 Detonations ................. 314
6.5. Explosively Generated Water Cavities ..................... 323
6.6. Munroe Jets .............................................. 337
6.7. NOBEL Explosive Build-Up ................................. 346
6.8. Shaped Charge Jet Formation and Penetration .............. 364
6.9. Hydrovolcanic Explosions ................................. 366
6.10. Summary ................................................. 369
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Numerical Solution of One-Dimensional
Lagrangian Reactive Flow .......................... 373
Appendix B. Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional
Lagrangian Reactive Flow .......................... 391
Appendix C. Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional
Eulerian Reactive Flow ............................ 403
Appendix D. Numerical Solution of Three-Dimensional
Eulerian Reactive Flow ............................ 441
Appendix E. Numerical Solution of Explosive and Propellant
Properties using the BKW Equation of State ........ 453
Appendix F. Equations for Computing Thermodynamic
Functions of Gases and Solids ..................... 485
Appendix G. General Derivation of Flow Equations .............. 493
AUTHOR INDEX .................................................. 501
SUBJECT INDEX ................................................. 509
CD-ROM Contents ............................................... 523
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