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The paper discusses the physical background of explosive phenomena caused by internal energy release in substances undergoing liquid-to-vapor phase transition. Two types of “physical” explosions are discussed: the boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion arising upon catastrophic failure of high-pressure vessels and known as one of major hazards in process industries, and the steam explosion, arising upon interaction of high-temperature melt with water or some other coolant having low enough boiling point. In both cases, the dynamics of two-phase mixture containing liquid and vapor phases of the substance is described by Euler equations with complex equation of state which is different from the equations of state for the individual phases. Numerical aspects arising in the solution of the governing equations are discussed, and results of typical numerical simulations demonstrating the development and propagation of pressure waves from the respective types of explosions are presented.
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Yakush, S.E. (2020). Modeling the Explosive Phenomena Driven by Rapid Phase Transition. In: Demidenko, G., Romenski, E., Toro, E., Dumbser, M. (eds) Continuum Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing: Godunov's Legacy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38870-6_51
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