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Detonation characteristics of hydrogen‐oxygen mixtures at high initial pressures
Author(s) -
Gealer Roy L.,
Churchill Stuart W.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690060330
Subject(s) - detonation , hydrogen , thermodynamics , oxygen , chemistry , computation , materials science , explosive material , physics , organic chemistry , mathematics , algorithm
Detonation velocities of hydrogen‐oxygen mixtures were measured for initial pressures from 14.4 to 1,000 lb./sq. in. abs. and compositions from 40 to 80 mole % molecular hydrogen. Detonation and impact characteristics were computed for essentially the same range of conditions by the use of the elementary theory of detonation. Equilibrium compositions of hydrogen‐oxygen mixtures at pressures from 10 to 2,000 atm. and temperatures from 3,000 to 5,000°K. were included in the computations and have been filed with the American Documentation Institute. The effect of nonideal thermodynamic properties on the computed detonation velocities was considered.