  SN 1984A shows unusually large expansion velocities in lines from freshly
synthesized material, relative to typical Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). SN 1984A
is an example of a group of SNe Ia which have very large blue-shifts of the
P-Cygni features, but otherwise normal spectra. We have modeled several early
spectra of SN 1984A with the multi-purpose NLTE model atmosphere and spectrum
synthesis code, PHOENIX. We have used as input two delayed detonation models:
CS15DD3 (Iwamoto et al. 1999) and DD21c (Hoeflich, Wheeler & Thielemann 1998).
These models show line expansion velocities which are larger than that for a
typical deflagration model like W7, which we have previously shown to fit the
spectra of normal SNe Ia quite well. We find these delayed detonation models to
be reasonable approximations to large absorption feature blue-shift SNe Ia,
like SN 1984A. Higher densities of newly synthesized intermediate mass elements
at higher velocities, v > 15,000 km/s, are found in delayed detonation models
than in deflagration models. We find that this increase in density at high
velocities is responsible for the larger blue-shifts in the synthetic spectra.
We show that the variations in line width in observed SNe Ia are likely due to
density variations in the outer, high-velocity layers of their atmospheres.
