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Assessment of Safety and Risk with a Microscopic Model of Detonation (Hardcover)
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Assessment of Safety and Risk with a Microscopic Model of Detonation (Hardcover)
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This unique book is a store of less well-known explosion and
detonation phenomena, including also data and experiences related
to
safety risks. It highlights the shortcomings of the current
engineering codes based on a classical plane wave model of
the
phenomenon, and why these tools must fail.
For the first time all the explosion phenomena are described in
terms
of proper assemblages of hot spots, which emit pressure waves
and
associated near field terms in flow. Not all of the approaches
are
new. Some even date back to the 19th century or earlier.. What is
new
is the application of these approaches to explosion phenomena.
In
order to make these tools easily available to the current
detonation
physicist, basic acoustics is therefore also addressed.
Whereas the current plane wave, homogeneous flow detonation
physics
is an excellent engineering tool for numerical predictions
under
given conditions, the multi-hot-spot-model is an additional tool
for
analyzing phenomena that cannot be explained by classical
calculations. The real benefit comes from being able to understand,
without any artificial assumptions, the whole phenomenology
of
detonations and explosions. By specifying pressure generating
mechanisms, one is able to see that the current treatment of
the
detonics of energetic materials is only a very special - but
powerful
- case of explosion events and hazards. It becomes clear that
physical explosions must be taken into account in any safety
considerations. In these terms it is easy to understand why
even
liquid carbon dioxide and inert silo materials can explode.
A unique collection of unexpected events, which might surprise
even
specialists, has resulted from the evaluation of the model.
Therefore
this book is valuable for each explosion and safety scientist for
the
understanding and forecasting of unwanted events. The text
mainly
addresses the next generation of explosion and detonation
scientists,
with the goal of promoting the science of detonation on a new
physical basis. For this reason gaps in current knowledge are
also
addressed. The science of explosions is not fully mature, but
is
still in its beginning - and the tools necessary for furthering
the
understanding of these phenomena have been with us for centuries.
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