Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-06-20
Physical Review B Vol.82, 214108 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Five pages, five figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.214108
The shock response of two-dimensional model high explosive crystals with various arrangements of circular voids is explored. We simulate a piston impact using molecular dynamics simulations with a Reactive Empirical Bond Order (REBO) model potential for a sub-micron, sub-ns exothermic reaction in a diatomic molecular solid. In square lattices of voids (of equal size), reducing the size of the voids or increasing the porosity while holding the other parameter fixed causes the hotspots to consume the material more quickly and detonation to occur sooner and at lower piston velocities. The early time behavior is seen to follow a very simple ignition and growth model. The hotspots are seen to collectively develop a broad pressure wave (a sonic, diffuse deflagration front) that, upon merging with the lead shock, transforms it into a detonation. The reaction yields produced by triangular lattices are not significantly different. With random void arrangements, the mean time to detonation is 15.5\% larger than with the square lattice; the standard deviation of detonation delays is just 5.1%.
Germann Timothy C.
Grønbech-Jensen Niels
Herring Davis S.
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