Effect of a collapsing gas bubble on the shock-to-detonation transition in liquid nitromethane
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Veeser, Lynn R.
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A comparison of Raman and pyrometry dynamic temperature measurements of shocked cyclohexane
Optical pyrometry is a well-developed, broadly applicable method to determine temperature in dynamic compression experiments. However, it measures radiation from only the skin depth of the radiant material, is highly susceptible to spurious backgrounds, and requires an often-unmeasurable free parameter—the sample dynamic emissivity. Raman spectroscopy offers a method to determine temperature directly from fundamental theory, but it is practically limited in applications to a small subset of shock experiments. In this work, we describe an experiment allowing simultaneous application of Raman and pyrometric temperature techniques to benchmark a specific instance of pyrometry. We attempted both measurements on multiple experiments and compare the successful temperature results between the separate but highly repeatable shots. Here, we find that dynamic shock temperatures inferred from Raman spectroscopy and pyrometry generally agree within the uncertainties of each measurement, although those uncertainties are larger than typical for a specially designed pyrometry experiment on a shocked metal sample.
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Modeling for pRad Explosive Experiments
The hydrodynamics code CTH was used to simulate high-explosive detonations in various geometries to design a planar, high-pressure drive with Taylor wave release for experiments in the proton radiography containment vessel. The most successful geometry is based on a P25 lens with some of its outer diameter and output end removed. Shock planarity was significantly improved relative to an unmodified P25 lens for this case, where its full diameter was not needed, and the calculated timing was adequate to trigger the experiments successfully.
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