ABSTRACT
The assumption of stable, one-dimensional detonations is not valid when one considers small-scale details, as Chapter 1 shows. However, although steady-state theory is invalid on a microscale, it does provide an excellent first approximation and a very useful aid in detonation performance calculations. Assumptions of chemical equilibrium in the steadystate model are incorrect. One of the interesting problems in modeling the equation of state of detonation products is finding reasonable changes in the detonation product composition which will reproduce the experimentally observed explosive and propellant performance.
