Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 27 JUNE 2001

08:00 J1.001 Electronic Excitations in Shocked Solid Nitromethane

Laurence E. Fried (MIT, Dept of Physics, Cambridge, MA 02139)

08:30 J1.002 A Study of Deflagration to Detonation Transition in a Model A-B system using Molecular Dynamics

Peter J Haskins, Justin Fellows, Malcolm D Cook (DERA), DERA Team

08:45 J1.003 Steady Flow Detonations from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

D. R. Swanson (University of Nebraska--Lincoln), C. T. White (NRL)

09:00 J1.004 Theory of Time Dependent Response of RDX Crystal to Shock

Troy Oxby, A. Barry Kunz, Warren F. Perger (Michigan Tech Univ), G. Chambers, R. Lee (NSWC IHD)

09:15 J1.005 Elastic Properties of HMX

Thomas D. Sewell, Ralph Menikoff (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dmitry Bedrov, Grant D. Smith (Department of Materials Science amp; Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, University of Utah)

09:30 J1.006 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of HMX Using a Flexible Molecule Force Field

Dmitry Bedrov, Grant D. Smith (Department of Materials Science amp; Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering, University of Utah), Thomas D. Sewell (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:00 J2.001 Embedded Electromagnetic Gauge Measurements and Modeling of Shock Initiation in the TATB based Explosives PBX 9502 and LX-17

R.L. Gustavsen, S.A. Sheffield, R.R. Alcon (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J.W. Forbes, C.M. Tarver, F. Garcia (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:15 J2.002 Detonation Initiation in Pre-Shocked Liquid Explosives

François X. Jetté, Akio C. Yoshinaka, Andrew J. Higgins, John H.S. Lee (McGill University), Fan Zhang (Defence Research Establishment Suffield)

08:30 J2.003 Shock Wave Initiation of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate Single Crystals: Mechanism of Anisotropic Sensitivity

Yuri A. Gruzdkov (Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2816)

09:00 J2.004 Lagrangian Analysis of EDC37 Shock Initiation Data.

J.R. Maw (AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, UK.)

09:15 J2.005 Transient Detonation Processes in Plastic Bonded Explosives

Keith Thomas, James Kennedy (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Joseph Foster (Air Force Research Laboratory)

09:30 J2.006 An investigation into the initiation of hexanitrostilbene by laser-driven flyer plates

Martin W. Greenaway, Michael J. Gifford, William G. Proud, John E. Field (Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, United Kingdom), Stephen G. Goveas (AWE Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 4PR, United Kingdom)

09:45 J2.007 Influence of shock-wave loading conditions on behavior of high explosive compositions based on HMX, RDX and PETN

V.K. Golubev, A.P. Pogorelov (Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia)

08:00 J3.001 Shock-Induced Structural Phase Transformations Studied by Molecular-Dynamics Simulations

Kadau Kai, Timothy C. Germann, Peter S. Lomdahl, Brad L. Holian (Applied Physics and Theoretical Divisions, Los Alamos National Labatory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.)

08:15 J3.002 Orientation Effects in Shocked Nickel Single Crystals via Molecular Dynamics

O. Kum, J. M. Winey, Y. M. Gupta (Inst. Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

08:30 J3.003 Atomistic modeling of orientation dependence of shock waves properties in a diamond crystal

Sergey Zybin, Mark Elert (U.S. Naval Academy), Vasilii Zhakhovskii (Osaka University), Carter White (Naval Research Laboratory)

08:45 J3.004 Shock waves in dusty plasmas

J.E. Hammerberg, T.C. Germann, B.L. Holian (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:00 J3.005 Simulation of pressure tensor and energy flux at a shock front

Robert J. Hardy, Seth Root (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

09:15 J3.006 Uniaxial Hugoniostat: Method and Applications

Jean-Bernard Maillet, Stephane Bernard (C.E.A.)

09:30 J3.007 DEM Modelling of Non-linear Viscoelastic Stress Waves

Wenqiang Wang, Zhiping Tang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yasuyuki Horie (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:45 J3.008 Molecular-dynamic simulation of shock-wave compression of metals

A.Yu. Aleinikov, O.I. Butnev, A.N. Bykov, N.S. Ganchuk, V.K. Golubev, A.A. Selezenev, B.L. Voronin (Sarov Open Computer Center, Sarov, Russia)

08:00 J4.001 Equation of state measurements in singly shocked diamond1

D. K. Bradley, G. W. Collins, P. Celliers, D. Hicks, L. DaSilva, A. MacKinnon, R. Cauble, S. Moon, R. Wallace, B. Hammel, W. Hsing (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), M Koenig, A Benuzzi, G Huser (Ecole Polytechnique), E Henry, D Batani (University Milan-Bicocca and I.N.F.M.), O Willi, J Pasley, G Henning (Imperial College), P Loubeyre (C.E.A. Bruyeres), R Jeanloz, K. Lee, L Benedetti (UC Berkeley), D Neely, M Notley, C Danson (Rutherford Lab)

08:15 J4.002 Shock Compression, Adiabatic Expansion and Multi-Phase Equation of State of Carbon

K.V. Khishchenko, V.E. Fortov (IHED RAS), I.V. Lomonosov (ICPhR RAS), M.N. Pavlovskii, G.V. Simakov, M.V. Zhernokletov (RFNC-VNIIEF)

08:30 J4.003 Thermodynamic parameters and equation of state of low-dense = SiO_2-aerogel.

M.A. Mochalov, T.S. Lebedeva, A.B. Medvedev, M.V. Zhernokletov, A.N. Shuikin (RFNC-VNIIEF)

08:45 J4.004 Isentropic expansion of shock-compressed substances.

M.V. Zhernokletov (RFNC-VNIIEF)

09:00 J4.005 Recent advances in Quasi-Isentropic Compression Experiments (ICE) on the Sandia Z Accelerator

Clint Hall (Affiliation)

09:30 J4.006 NUMERICAL MODELIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF FLUX COMPRESSION EXPERIMENTS

Pierre L'Eplattenier, Mathias Bavay (Centre d'etudes de gramat, 46500 Gramat, France), Gilles Avrillaud (ITHPP, 46500 Thegra, France), Jehan Vanpoperynghe (CEA/DAM, Bruyères le Châtel, France)

09:45 J4.007 Simultaneous VISAR and TXD measurements on shocks in beryllium crystals

Damian Swift, |Dennis Paisley, George Kyrala, Allan Hauer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

08:00 J5.001 Explosion in the granite field: Hardening and softening behavior in rocks.

Ilya Lomov, Tarabai Antoun, Lewis Glenn (LLNL)

08:15 J5.002 Planetary impact and shock-induced damage in target rocks

Thomas J. Ahrens, Kaiwen Xia, Demirkan Coker, John D. O'Keefe (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125)

08:30 J5.003 Shock Flattening of Spheres in Porous Media: Implications for Flattened Chondrules

Toshimori Sekine (National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials), Naru Hirata (NASDA), Akira Yamaguchi (National Institute for Polar Research), Takamichi Kobayashi, Hongliang He (National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials), Z.P. Tang (University of science and Technology of China)

08:45 J5.004 Anomalous Shock Compression in H_2O Ice at Low Temperatures

Sarah T. Stewart, Thomas J. Ahrens (Lindhurst Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology)

09:00 J5.005 Recent Progress in Applications of Shock Wave Physics to Study the Earth's Interior in China

Zizheng Gong (Southwest Jiaotong Univer. Lab for High Pressure Physics, Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC 610031)