UKELG 47th Meeting

Condensed and Gas Phase Detonation Phenomena

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 23rd September 2011

Caroline Handley – AWE, UK

Modelling of High Explosives at AWE

Bill Proud -Imperial College, UK

The Shock Response of Granular and Biological Systems

Nikos Nikoforakis – Cambridge University, UK

Current Research on Condensed Phase Detonation Modelling in LSC, Cavendish

Laboratory

Ewan Sellers, AEL Mining Services, Republic of South Africa

The Role of Borehole Diameter in Open Pit Blast Performance

Jonathan Puttock & Andrzej Pekalski, Shell Global Solutions, UK

Deflagration to Detonation Transition in Highly Congested Environments

The Buncefield Incident

Elaine Oran, NRL, Washington, USA

Some Effects of Turbulence, Scale, and Background Non-Uniformities on Flame

Acceleration, Detonations, and DDT

Jim Venart – New Brunswick, Canada

Buncefield: Reconciliation of evidence with Mechanism(s) of Blast

Graham Atkinson – HSL, Buxton, UK

Severe Unconfined Petrol Vapour Explosions

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