Explosion Dynamics Laboratory

Public Resources

• Glossary of Explosion terms.
  
  Software
  
  
• Shock & Detonation Toolbox
• Gas phase thermodynamic data for performing equilibrium calculations or supporting kinetics calculations.
• Gas phase chemical kinetics mechanisms, rate constants and thermodynamics in Cantera format.
• Image Processing for Cell Size Measurement Instructions and Programs
  
  Databases and data sheets
  
  
• The Detonation Database
  
  
• Some data on flammability and explosion limits including full pdfs of Bureau of Mines Reports.
  
  
• Spreadsheets
  • Hydrocarbon fuel properties - enthalpy and vapor pressure (XLS)
  • Ideal gas properties (up to 4000 K) for selected combustion-relevant species (XLS)
    
  • Ideal gas properties (up to 20000 K) for selected species relevant to high-temperature air (XLSX)
  • Air thermal and transport properties. Equilibrium and frozen (1 atm, 200-10000 K) (XLSX)
  
  
  
• Mechanism Validation Report (PDF) Shock tube data, mechanism validation tests, CJ and ZND computations for H2, C2H4, C3H8.
• Induction time spreadsheet Shock tube induction time data base in Excel format. Or download as plain text:
  • Hydrogen
  • Ethylene
  • Propane
  
  
  
• Detonation Properties spreadsheet Computed detonation properties in Excel format. Or download as plain text:
  • Hydrogen
  • Ethylene
  • Propane
  
  
  Tutorials and Presentations
  
  
• (PPTX) "Detonation: Initiation, Propagation and Failure" - Slides from a talk at Purdue University, October 4. 2023.



• (PDF) "Pushing the Boundaries: From Detonations to Auto-Injectors" - Slides from Midwest Mechanics Lecture Tour, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018.



• (PDF) "Primary Packaging and Delivery Systems Interaction" - Slides from a lecture delivered at 10th Workshop on Monoclonal Antibodies, Parenteral Drug Associations, Sept 26-27, Berlin, Germany.



• (PDF) (PPTX) "Explosion Effects" - Slides for a tutorial lecture presented at The Fourth European Summer School on Hydrogen Safety Coralia Marina Viva, Corsica, France 7th -16th September 2009. The PDF (13Mb) has no animation but is a much shorter download than the PPTX (47 Mb).



• (PDF) (PPTX) "Detonation in Gases" - Slides from plenary lecture, International Symposium on Combustion, 2008. The PDF (5Mb) has no animation but is a much shorter download than the PPTX (25 Mb).


Reports and special projects


• Aviation Kerosene and the in-flight breakup of TWA Flight 800
• OECD NEA/CSNI/R(2000)7 Report Flame Acceleration and Deflagration to Detonation Transition in Nuclear Safety
• Crisis at Fukushima Daiichi Archive of 2011 talk videos, slides, web links for information on post March 11, 2011 events at F1 nuclear power plant.