@inproceedings{b5fd1780e7604d88b21be69004492e46,
title = "Studies in shocked nitromethane through high dynamic range spectroscopy",
abstract = "We have developed a tabletop apparatus to study shocked liquid explosives. We use 0-6 km s-1 laser-launched flyer plates and an array of liquid microcells that are probed with high-speed Doppler velocimetry and emission spectroscopy. Here we studied nitromethane (NM) and each cell contained about 2 mg of explosive. We showed there was a reaction threshold at a flyer plate velocity of 3.2 km s-1 (P = 15 GPa). The reaction began immediately (within 3 ns) after the shock entered the NM, which reacted at a temperature of 3700 K (±280 K). A series of careful tests showed the incoming shock was initially planar and steadily driven for several ns. The shock and the explosive emission were highly reproducible and experiments could be run at a rate of 50 shocks per day.",
author = "Mithun Bhowmick and Nissen, {Erin J.} and Matveev, {Sergey M.} and Dlott, {Dana D.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Author(s).; 20th Biennial American Physical Society Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, SCCM 2017 ; Conference date: 09-07-2017 Through 14-07-2017",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1063/1.5044876",
language = "English (US)",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Knudson, {Marcus D.} and Brown, {Eric N.} and Ricky Chau and Germann, {Timothy C.} and Lane, {J. Matthew D.} and Eggert, {Jon H.}",
booktitle = "Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2017",
}