ABSTRACT
As shown in Chapter 3, the basic mechanism of heterogeneous explosive shock initiation is shock interaction at density discontinuities which produce local hot spots that decompose and add their energy to the flow. Since it is not possible to model in detail all the density discontinuities of a heterogeneous explosive or even a representative sample of the discontinuities, the problem is to model the gross features of the shock initiation of a heterogeneous explosive or propellant.
