학술논문

An Interaction Potential for Atomic Simulations of Conventional High Explosives
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. E vol. 78 pp. 046709 2008
Subject
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Physics - Chemical Physics
Language
Abstract
In an effort to develop a chemically reactive interaction potential suitable for application to the study of conventional, organic explosives, we have modified the diatomic AB potential of Brenner et al. such that it exhibits improved detonation characteristics. In particular, equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) calculations of the modified potential demonstrate that the detonation products have an essentially diatomic, rather than polymeric, composition and that the detonation Hugoniot has the classic, concave-upward form. Nonequilibrium MD calculations reveal the separation of scales between chemical and hydrodynamic effects essential to the Zeldovitch, von Neumann, and Doering theory.
Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to PRE