TY - JOUR
T1 - Early time spectroscopic measurements during high-explosive detonation breakout into air
AU - Glumac, N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under contract HDTRA1-10-1-0003. The program manager is Dr. Suhithi Peiris. Thanks to Dr. Stephanie Johnson at AFRL Eglin for assistance in identification of the green and red emission bands, to Drs. William Lewis and Joel Carney for helpful discussions on emission spectra, and to Drs. Scott Stewart, Blaine Asay, Doug Tasker, and Joe Foster for insightful information on detonation breakout.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - Explosive breakout of PBX-9407 into air is examined using time-resolved optical spectroscopy over a period of several microseconds. Emission is monitored over the 250-700 nm range, and several atomic and molecular species are observed including atomic calcium, and copper, as well as OH and CN. Several lines and bands remain unidentified. Fits to Ca and OH spectra suggest that early time temperatures exceed 13,000 K behind the air shock and that temperature decay is fairly rapid over the first 10μs.Considering the proposed shock structure of the blast wave, it is likely that these temperatures are confined to a narrow region behind the blast wave, but nevertheless generate emission signatures that dominate the spectra at early times.
AB - Explosive breakout of PBX-9407 into air is examined using time-resolved optical spectroscopy over a period of several microseconds. Emission is monitored over the 250-700 nm range, and several atomic and molecular species are observed including atomic calcium, and copper, as well as OH and CN. Several lines and bands remain unidentified. Fits to Ca and OH spectra suggest that early time temperatures exceed 13,000 K behind the air shock and that temperature decay is fairly rapid over the first 10μs.Considering the proposed shock structure of the blast wave, it is likely that these temperatures are confined to a narrow region behind the blast wave, but nevertheless generate emission signatures that dominate the spectra at early times.
KW - Blast wave
KW - Detonation
KW - Emission spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1007/s00193-012-0421-8
DO - 10.1007/s00193-012-0421-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84874664979
SN - 0938-1287
VL - 23
SP - 131
EP - 138
JO - Shock Waves
JF - Shock Waves
IS - 2
ER -