Study of the role of homogeneous process in heterogeneous high explosives.

摘要

In a new hydrodynamic formulation of shock-induced chemical reaction, we can show formally that the presence of certain homogenous reaction characteristics is becoming more evident as shock pressure increase even in heterogeneous high explosives. The homogeneous reaction pathway includes nonequilibrium excitation and deactivation stages prior to chemical reaction. The excitation process leads to an intermediate state at higher energy level than the equilibrium state, and as a result, the effective activation energy appears to be lower than the value based on thermal experiments. As the pressure goes up higher, the homogeneous reaction can even surpass the heterogeneous process and becomes the dominant mechanism.