Detonating Systems Research

This research will focus on the understanding of fundamental detonation phenomena. Most conventional explosive models are described as composite models, which means they treat a complex reacting flow system with 100 to 1000’s of chemical reactions and intermediate material states as having only two. Those two states are joined by a reaction rate rule that governs how energy is liberated by moving between those states. Other simplifications include the homogenization of explosive microstructure within continuum models. The researc...