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Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants
About this book
Major advances, both in modeling methods and in the computing power required to make those methods viable, have led to major breakthroughs in our ability to model the performance and vulnerability of explosives and propellants. In addition, the development of proton radiography during the last decade has provided researchers with a major new experimental tool for studying explosive and shock wave physics. Problems that were once considered intractable – such as the generation of water cavities, jets, and stems by explosives and projectiles – have now been solved.
Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants, Third Edition provides a complete overview of this rapidly emerging field, covering basic reactive fluid dynamics as well as the latest and most complex methods and findings. It also describes and evaluates Russian contributions to the experimental explosive physics database, which only recently have become available.
This book comes with downloadable resources that contain—
· FORTRAN and executable computer codes that operate under Microsoft® Windows Vista operating system and the OS X operating system for Apple computers
· Windows Vista and MAC compatible movies and PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
· Explosive and shock wave databases generated at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Russian Federal Nuclear Centers
Charles Mader's three-pronged approach – through text, computer programs, and animations – imparts a thorough understanding of new computational methods and experimental measuring techniques, while also providing the tools to put these methods to effective use.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants
- Introduction
- The Author
- Contents
- chapter one: The Detonation Wave
- chapter two: Performance of Explosives and Propellants
- chapter three: Initiation of Detonation
- chapter four: Modeling Initiation of Heterogeneous Explosives
- chapter five: Interpretation of Experiments
- chapter six: NOBEL and PRad
- appendix A: Numerical Solution of One-Dimensional Reactive Flow
- appendix B: Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional Lagrangian Reactive Flow
- appendix C: Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional Eulerian Reactive Flow
- appendix D: Numerical Solution of Three-Dimensional Eulerian Reactive Flow
- appendix E: Numerical Solution of Explosive and Propellant Properties Using the BKW Equation of State
- appendix F: Equations for Computing Thermodynamic Functions of Gases and Solids
- appendix G: General Derivation of Flow Equations
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX
- NUMERICAL MODELING OF EXPLOSIVES AND PROPELLANTS: CD-ROM CONTENTS