Advancing the science of explosive fragmentation and afterburn fireballs though experiments and simulations at the benchtop scale

DR Guildenbecher, AR Dallman, EM Hall, BR Halls… - 2020 - osti.gov
Detonation of explosive devices produces extremely hazardous fragments and hot,
luminous fireballs. Prior experimental investigations of these post-detonation environments …

Extinction Imaging Diagnostics for In Situ Quantification of Soot within Explosively Generated Fireballs

AJ Saltzman, AD Brown, K Wan… - Propellants …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fireballs produced from the detonation of high explosives often contain particulates primarily
composed of various phases of carbon soot. The transport and concentration of these …

Infrared Laser Diagnostics for Characterizing Combustion of Energetic Materials and Detonation Flows

GC Mathews - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Laser-absorption spectroscopy (LAS) is an established technique providing noninvasive
measurements of temperature, pressure, and species concentrations in combustion …

Toward Quantitative Imaging of Soot in an Explosively Generated Fireball

AJ Saltzman, DR Guildenbecher, SP Kearney… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1521. vid The detonation of
explosives produces luminous fireballs often containing particulates such as carbon soot or …

Laser-absorption-spectroscopy measurements of temperature, pressure, and CO at 1 MHz in post-detonation fireballs

GC Mathews, M Gomez, C Schwartz, SF Son… - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0288. vid Scanned-wavelength
direct-absorption spectroscopy was used to measure CO absorbance spectra near 2008.5 …