BKW EOS: history of modifications and further improvement of accuracy with temperature-dependent covolumes of polar molecules

• Main Authors: Suceska, Muhamad, Chan, Serene Hay Yee, Stimac, Barbara, Dobrilovic, Mario
• Other Authors: Energetics Research Institute
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Nanotechnology; BKW Equation of State; Explosives
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161539
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A hundred years ago (in 1921) Becker proposed an equation of state in which the repulsive term in van der Waals equation of state was replaced by an exponential function. Twenty years later, Kistiakowsky and Wilson modified Becker's equation and used it to calculate the detonation properties of...