Author : Martin S. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781423551010
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis A Chemically Specific Burning Rate Predictor Model for Energetic Materials by : Martin S. Miller
Download or read book A Chemically Specific Burning Rate Predictor Model for Energetic Materials written by Martin S. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of complex networks of elementary chemical reactions to the gas phase of burning energetic materials has increased markedly over the last decade. The exquisite complexity of these gas-phase reaction networks, coupled with available high-rigor treatments of transport, is not matched by an equivalent level of sophistication in descriptions of the condensed-phase and interfacial phenomena. Owing to the bastly more complicated, many-body nature of the condensed phase, this condition is not likely to be relieved soon. In response to these difficulties, a new semi-empirical approach to burning-rate calculation has been developed and applied to frozen ozone, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), and nitroglycerine. The new approach hypothesizes a single overall reaction linking the unreacted material to the net products of condensed-phase decomposition and characterizes their rate of formation according to an empirically derived pyrolysis law. These condensed-phase products become the reactants for the gas phase, which are treated in full elementary-reaction detail. Using this new semi-emperical model, a methodology for computing the relative effects of several additives on the burning rate of nitroglycerine is developed and demonstrated. Hopefully this approach will enable more rapid progress in modeling multi-ingredient propellants than did previous approaches attempting to model the condensed-phase processes in detail.