I want to analyze the explosive nature of an organic compound containing NO2 groups. I want to calculate the detonation velocity and pressure using Gaussian09. Anyone please help me solve this problem.
SInce you want to simulate time evolution of a rather large system (to get detonation velocity and pressure) and likely periodic, gaussian is probably not a good choice. You need a mehod that can deal with large systems and can simulate time evolution and bond breaking. One method that comes to my mind is ReaxFF, see e.g. these two papers:
You could also try accurate QM calculations on single molecule and get some info about its decomposition and its energetics, though I'm not sure if this can be translated to the quantities you're looking for. For an example see http://www.wag.caltech.edu/publications/sup/pdf/806.pdf
I want to know how can I calculate the "Power of explosion (J/s)" from Detonation velocity (Vcj) (m/s), Density (rho_exp) (kg/m3), and Mass specific energy (Q_DET) (kJ/kg)?
I saw this relation:
Pexp = rho_exp * Q_DET * (4*pi*Vcj^3*t^2)
but it seems that is wrong!
In addition, I want to calculate the radius of explosion sphere. Do you know how?