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Modification of Jet Velocities in an Explosively Loaded Copper Target with a Conical Cavity

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In this work, the design and execution of an experiment with the goal of demonstrating control over the evolution of a copper jet is described. Simulations show that when using simple multi-material buffers placed between a copper target with a conical cavity and a cylinder of high-explosive, a variety of jetting behaviors occur based on material placement, including both jet velocity augmentation and mitigation. A parameter sweep was performed to determine optimal buffer designs in two configurations. Experiments using the optimal buffer designs verified the effectiveness of the buffers at altering jet velocities. Similar trends were shown between the experimental results and the modeling.

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This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. We gratefully acknowledge the LLNL Lab Directed Research and Development Program for funding support of this research under Project No. 21-SI-006. Document release number LLNL-JRNL-860841.

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  1. M. P. Hennessey and F. Wilson have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    M. P. Hennessey, D. J. Kline, D. K. Amondson, H. Keo Springer, K. T. Sullivan & J. L. Belof

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

    F. Wilson, G. I. Rabinowitz, M. J. Sevcik, K. J. Tucker & V. Eliasson

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Contributions

Michael P. Hennessey: Conceptualization, methodology, software validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, datacuration, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision. Finnegan Wilson: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization. Grace I. Rabinowitz: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization. Max J. Sevcik: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, investigation, resources writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization. Kadyn J. Tucker: Methodology, validation, investigation, resources writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. Dylan J. Kline: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration. David K. Amondson: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, visualization, supervision, project administration. H. Keo Springer: Conceptualization, software, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, visualization, supervision, project administration. Kyle T. Sullivan: Conceptualization, methodology, software, validation, investigation, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition. Veronica Eliasson: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition. Jonathan L. Belof: Conceptualization, methodology, validation, investigation, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition.

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Hennessey, M.P., Wilson, F., Rabinowitz, G.I. et al. Modification of Jet Velocities in an Explosively Loaded Copper Target with a Conical Cavity. J. dynamic behavior mater. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40870-024-00447-5

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