Advanced Methods for Determining the Origin of Vapor Cloud Explosions Case Study: The 2006 Danvers Explosion Investigation

Gas dispersion and explosion dynamics can be very complex. Blast effects in the far field are less sensitive to the local dynamics of an explosion event, and simplified techniques have been developed to roughly estimate the amount of fuel involved (i.e., energy released) in an explosion based on the observed damage in the far field. However, these simple techniques are not suitable to predict the complex explosion dynamics that occur in the near...