Accession Number:
AD0296417
Title:
THE COMBUSTION OF A GRANULAR MIXTURE OF POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE AND ALUMINUM CONSIDERED AS EITHER A DEFLAGRATION OR A DETONATION
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
PICATINNY ARSENAL DOVER NJ FELTMAN RESEARCH LABS
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1963-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
74.0
Abstract:
The combustion front in a column of a granuar mixture of potassium perchlorate and aluminum has been observed to propagate stably at either a low speed 300ms with a short reaction zone 2 cm, or a high one 900 ms with an elongated reaction zone 8 cm, and with an occasional rapid transition between them. Calculations are made to categorize the observed phenomena as those of either a deflagration or a detonation.
Descriptors:
- *DEFLAGRATION
- *DETONATIONS
- ELASTIC PROPERTIES
- SOLIDS
- EXPLOSIVES
- GASES
- MIXTURES
- COMBUSTION
- THERMAL DIFFUSION
- ALUMINUM
- MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
- SOUND
- PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
- DIFFUSION
- EQUATIONS
- HYDRODYNAMICS
- MOLECULAR PROPERTIES
- POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS
- PERCHLORATES
- DUST EXPLOSIONS
- THEORY
- NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Subject Categories:
- Combustion and Ignition