Credible explanation.
jd
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Subject: [AR] Re: AMOS-6 RUD
He's asserting that only a tiny portion of the fuel and oxidizer were mixed
thoroughly enough to detonate, and that those detonated in their entirety. (And
presumably that the shock wave was damped by intervening non-detonable
propellants.)
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you asserting that a detonation began, encountered a detonation
suppressor, and was successfully suppressed?
-R
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WRT detonation, there is such a beast as a
deflagration-to-detonation transition, and people put a lot of work
into preventing or postponing that transition. No one talks about
reversing it. My understanding is that if you have a detonable
mixture, and a detonation begins, it continues until the mixture is
consumed.
There's been a ton of work on the reverse, they're called detonation
supressors. For when you want fire with less boom.
A detonation in that fuel/lox mixture would indeed stop when it ran
out of detonable mixture. The bulk LOX and bulk kerosene are not
individually detonable.
Ben
