Monday, July 10

MS5
Computational Methods in High Explosive Modeling

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Rio Mar 2

Progress in understanding detonation wave propagation in high explosives involves theory, computation, and experiment. The speakers in this minisymposium will discuss all three in the context of modeling unsteady propagation by means of level-set techniques. These techniques provide a description of the detonation front without having to model the details of the chemistry in the combustion process thus limiting the complexity and computational effort involved in obtaining an accurate simulation. The speakers will describe the history, development, implementation, and validation of the "detonation shock dynamics" (DSD) model.

10:30-10:55 The Detonation Shock Dynamics Method

John B. Bdzil, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

11:00-11:25 Detonation Shock Dynamics for State-sensitive Reaction Rates ����

Mark Short, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

11:30-11:55 Level Set Methods for Modeling High Explosives

Tariq D. Aslam, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

12:00-12:25 Implementation and Testing of the Detonation Shock Dynamics Model in a Hydrocode

Rudolph J. Henninger, Organizer