WATER WAVES PRODUCED BY IMPULSIVE ENERGY SOURCES. PART II. SURFACE GENERATION
Abstract
In Part I: Subsurface Generation, an analytical solution for the space-time history of the surface deformation produced by deep underwater explosions was presented. This report, Part II, is concerned with the determination of the shape of the free surface subsequent to a surface explosion. The solution presented in this paper is numerically explicit, and is suitable for medium sized computers. Truncation errors are easily bounded. The only approximations involved in the analysis are the assumptions of incompressibility and irrotationality. Boundary conditions are kept nonlinear. Restriction is made to the area affected by overpressures due to the explosion and to the interval during which these overpressures are known. Although the method is applicable to both chemical and nuclear explosions, the properties of the latter are considered, essentially, in discussing the computational details. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0347972
Entities
People
- Bernard G. Grunebaum