High Resolution Numerical Simulation of Detonation Diffraction of Condensed Explosives

Abstract

In this paper, the specific expression for pressure and sound speed in chemical reaction zone of condensed explosives are theoretically deduced, and a new method for deriving the partial derivative of pressure in respect of every conserved quantity is proposed. Combined with the third-order TVD Runge–Kutta method, we develop a parallel solver using the fifth-order high-resolution weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) finite difference scheme to simulate detonation diffraction for two-dimensional condensed explosives. The numerical simulation results revealed the forming reasons of the low-pressure region, the low-density region, the "vortex" region and the "dead zone" in the vicinity of the corner. Furthermore, it demonstrated that the retonation will generate along the inner wall, and it plays an important role in the process of detonation diffraction.