New developments of the CARTE thermochemical code: I-parameter optimization

Abstract

We present the calibration of the CARTE thermochemical code that allows to compute the properties of a wide variety of CHON explosives. We have developed an optimization procedure to obtain an accurate multicomponents EOS (fluid phase and condensed phase of carbon). We show here that the results of CARTE code are in good agreement with the specific data of molecular systems and we extensively compare our calculations with measured detonation properties for several explosives.