Laser pulses into bullets: tabletop shock experiments

DD Dlott - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This article discusses tabletop high-throughput laser experiments on shock waves in solids
and liquids, where the more usual laser pump pulse is replaced by a 0.5 mm diameter laser …

Shock-induced kinetics and cellular structures of liquid nitromethane detonation

EJ Nissen, M Bhowmick, DD Dlott - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
Using a combination of high-speed diagnostics, optical pyrometry, velocimetry and video
photography, we examine the spatiotemporal reaction kinetics of a prototypical high-energy …

Ethylenediamine catalyzes nitromethane shock-to-detonation in two distinct ways

EJ Nissen, M Bhowmick, DD Dlott - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Adding amines to liquid nitromethane (NM) is known to lower the threshold for the shock-to-
detonation transition because amines catalyze proton transfer reactions that are the initial …