Prediction of Initial Temperature Effects on Shock Initiation of Solid Explosives by Using Mesoscopic Reaction Rate Model

Abstract A kind of mesoscopic reaction rate model is reexamined in this paper with the aim of getting rid of the temperature dependence of its experiential parameters and making it available to predict the shock initiation of solid explosives under different initial temperatures. It is found that the initial temperature effect is induced mainly by the temperature dependence of the local chemical reaction rate and the initial density of the explosives, and, via the introduction of such temperature dependence, the reaction rate model can predict well the shock initiation processes under different initial temperatures, in which just the experiential parameters under a certain temperature (e.g. the normal temperature) are needed. Moreover, for verification, the shock initiation processes of PBX-9501 under different initial temperatures were simulated numerically by using the DYNA2D software. The numerical results on the run distance to detonation are found to be in good agreement with previous experimental data.