2 Results
2.1 Initiation and development of the detonation
In the numerical experiments, we studied the processes that occurred in the crystal under the action of
the impulse of the external force F0. The value of F0 was 13 · 10−11N, the duration of the force impulse
was τc = 2 · 10−13 s, and the initial temperature of the crystal was T = 0 K.
The force F0 = 13 · 10−11N gave rise to self-sustained detonation wave that propagated across the
crystal at a velocity greater than the speed of sound. As an example, we show here the dynamic sweep
of detonation in the crystal placed in an adiabatic shell (Fig. 1). In this case, the detonation velocity is
D = 10.928km/s. Figure 2 illustrates the time variation of the detonation wave front position; these data
prove that the wave propagates in the crystal at a constant velocity.
To investigate into the state of the molecular crystal prior to arrival of the detonation wave, we used
the following procedure. A control mesocell (a mesocell in which the time variation of energy and