CSE Symposium Keynote
DATE: Friday, April 28, 2000
TIME: 9:00 A.M.
PLACE: Second Floor Commons, Grainger Engineering Library
TITLE: Computational and Experimental Study of Energetic Materials
ABSTRACT
We investigate the burning of RDX, HMX and AP in several geometric
configurations. Systems studied include monopropellant flames, counterflow
diffusion flames and coflow diffusion flames. In each case the problem is
formulated with detailed chemistry and transport submodels and the resulting
boundary value problem is solved by a combination of Newton's method and
pseudo-time integration. Adaptive grid refinement is used to enhance the
resolution in the solution. We compare the results of these models with a
series of experimental measurements in which the temperature is measured with
radiation-corrected thermocouples and OH rotational population distribution,
several important species are measured with planar laser-induced fluorescence,
UV-visible absorption, and Raman spectroscopies, and the soot volume fraction
is measured with laser-induced incandescence and visible absorption
spectroscopy.