Accession Number:

AD0607380

Title:

COMPUTATION OF GASEOUS DETONATION PARAMETERS

Descriptive Note:

Technical note no. 6

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY SPACE SCIENCES LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Busch, C. W.
• Laderman, A. J.
• Oppenheim, A. K.

Report Date:

1964-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

99.0

Abstract:

This report describes the development of a method programmed for a digital computer to evaluate one dimensional detonation parameters in gaseous media. The calculations are based on the assumptions that the mixture is comprised of ideal gas constituents and that the wave process is governed by equilibrium end conditions. Details of the analytical method of solution are presented including the IBM 7090 computer program, described in Fortran language. Sample input and output data with instructions for preparing the input data are given. Finally, computations are performed for a number of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures from H2O2 to 3H2O2 at several initial conditions covering a range in pressure from 0.1 to 760 mm Hg and in temperatures from -180 to 200F and a comparison is made with calculations of other investigators for a stoichiometric mixture initially at NTP.

Descriptors:

• *DETONATIONS
• COMPARISON
• COMPUTATIONS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• EQUILIBRIUM(GENERAL)
• EXPLOSION EFFECTS
• FORTRAN
• GASES
• HYDROGEN
• INPUT
• INSTRUCTIONS
• MEDIA
• MIXTURES
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• ONE DIMENSIONAL
• OUTPUT
• OXYGEN
• PARAMETERS
• PRESSURE
• REPORTS
• STOICHIOMETRY
• TEMPERATURE
• THERMODYNAMICS
• WAVES

Subject Categories:

• Explosions

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE