SPHERICAL SHOCK WAVES IN SOLIDS

Abstract

Contents: Introduction-Reasons for Studying Spherical Shock Waves, Physics of Cavity Expansion due to Explosive Impact, General Nature of Shock Waves, and Statement of Problem and Scope of Thesis; Brief Review of Past Work-Elastic Plastic Effects, Similarity Solutions of Equations of Gas Dynamics, Self-Similar Solutions of the Problem of Cratering Due to Hypervelocity Impact, and Numerical Integration of the Differential Equation of Spherical Blast Waves in a Gas and Hydrodynamics of Hypervelocity Impact; Self-Similar Solution for Problems with Spherical Symmetry-Theory, and Solution of the Governing Differential Equation of Self-Similar Motion; Application of the Theory of Self-Similar Motion to the Problem of Expansion of a Spherical Cavity in a Metal Due to Explosive Impact-Description of Model and Assumptions, Equations of State of Metals, Solution of the Blast Wave Problem in Aluminum, Blast Waves in Other Metals; and Consideration of the Non-Similar Aspects of the Blast Wave Problem; Experimental Procedure and Results; Singular Point of Ordinary Differential Equations; Numerical Program-Fortran Program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 09, 1963
Accession Number
AD0415617

Entities

People

  • Harry H. Calvit
  • Norman Davids

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast Waves
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Elastic Waves
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Gas Dynamics
  • High Explosives
  • Integrals
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Shock Waves

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics