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Ignition of boron-containing high-energy materials based on an oxidizer and polymer binder
The use of aluminum borides is a promising direction in the development of modern propellant compositions and aerial vehicles. We present experimental data on the kinetics of oxidation of microscale powders of aluminum, amorphous boron, and the aluminum borides AlB2 and AlB12 in air upon heating at a constant rate of 10°C/min and the results of laser-assisted ignition of high-energy materials that contain these metal powders and are based on ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, and an inert binder or an energetic combustible binder. We show that the use of the boron-containing powders enables us to lower the onset temperature of oxidation and the temperature of intense oxidation, while increasing their oxidation effectiveness, compared to pure aluminum. The dependences of ignition delay time on the heat flux show that the AlB2 and AlB12 powders are the most effective metal fuel components for solid propellants based on ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, and an energetic binder: they display the shortest ignition delay time and require the lowest heat input for ignition
HYDRO + JETS (HYDJET++) event generator for Pb+Pb collisions at LHC
The Monte Carlo event generator HYDJET++ is one of the few generators,
designed for the calculations of heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic
energies, which combine treatment of soft hydro-like processes with the
description of jets traversing the hot and dense partonic medium. The model is
employed to study the azimuthal anisotropy phenomena, dihadron angular
correlations and event-by-event (EbyE) fluctuations of the anisotropic flow in
Pb+Pb collisions at TeV. The interplay of soft and hard
processes describes the violation of the mass hierarchy of meson and baryon
elliptic and triangular flows at p_T > 2 GeV/c, the fall-off of the flow
harmonics at intermediate transverse momenta, and the worsening of the
number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling of elliptic/triangular flow at LHC
compared to RHIC energies. The cross-talk of v_2 and v_3 leads to emergence of
higher order harmonics in the model and to appearance of the ridge structure in
dihadron angular correlations in a broad pseudorapidity range. HYDJET++
possesses also the dynamical EbyE fluctuations of the anisotropic flow. The
model results agree well with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, contribution to Proceedings of the Winter
Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics 201
Combustion and agglomeration of aluminized high-energy compositions
The results of combustion study for high-energy compositions (HECs) based on ammonium perchlorate (AP), butadiene rubber and ultrafine powder (UFP) aluminum Alex, and agglomeration of metal particles on the burning surface and composition of condensed combustion products (CCPs) are presented. It was found that partial replacement 2 wt. % of Alex by iron UFP in HEC increases the burning rate 1.3-1.4 times at the range of nitrogen pressure 2.0-7.5 MPa and reduces the mean diameter of CCPs particles d[43] from 37.4 [mu]m to 33.5 [mu]m at pressure [mu]4 MPa. Upon partial replacement 2 wt. % of Alex by boron UFP in HEC the recoil force of gasification products outflow from burning surface is increased by 9 % and the burning rate of HEC does not change in the above pressure range, while the mean diameter of CCPs particles is reduced to 32.6 [mu]m at p~4 MPa
Higher harmonics of azimuthal anisotropy in relativistic heavy ion collisions in HYDJET++ model
The LHC data on azimuthal anisotropy harmonics from PbPb collisions at
center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted in
the framework of the HYDJET++ model. The cross-talk of elliptic and
triangular flow in the model generates both even and odd harmonics of
higher order. Comparison with the experimental data shows that this mechanism
is able to reproduce the and centrality dependencies of
quadrangular flow , and also the basic trends for pentagonal and
hexagonal flows.Comment: 12 pages including 13 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX
package for publication in the European Physical Journal
The influence of water content on wheat dough in changing the rheological characteristics and quality of the finished product
The most important task facing the baking enterprise under market conditions is the production of bakery products with the best qualities that can be achieved from a particular batch of processed flour. In producing bakery products, wheat flour is the most volatile commodity. Then in order to obtain finished products with desired texture parameters the rheological properties of the semi-finished baking properties created from the raw materials and formulation products must be controlle
Effect of iron and boron powders on ignition and combustion of aluminized composite solid propellants
Will jets reduce the elliptic flow at LHC, while decays of resonances restore the constituent quark scaling?
Formation and evolution of the elliptic flow pattern in Pb+Pb collisions at
sqrt{s}=5.5 ATeV and in Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s}=200 AGeV are analyzed for
different hadron species within the framework of HYDJET++ Monte-Carlo model.
The model contains both hydrodynamic state and jets, thus allowing for a study
of the interplay between the soft and hard processes. It is found that jets are
terminating the rise of the elliptic flow with increasing transverse momentum.
Since jets are more influential at LHC compared to RHIC, the elliptic flow at
LHC should be weaker than that at RHIC. The influence of resonance decays on
particle elliptic flow is investigated also. These final state interactions
enhance the low-p_T part of the v_2 of pions and light baryons, and work
towards the fulfilment of idealized constituent quark scaling.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, 3 table
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