NOTES ON THE DIFFRACTION OF BLASTS BY FLYING VEHICLES. PART ONE: GENERAL COMMENTS PART TWO: BLAST-WAVE, MACH-WAVE INTERACTION,

Abstract

Whitham's technique for the approximate calculation of the diffraction of shock waves by stationary bodies is applied to the diffraction of a blast wave by a Mach wave that emanates from the apex of a thin wedge in supersonic flight. The approximate results tend to the exact results for weak blast waves but are unsatisfactory for very strong blast waves. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 26, 1963
Accession Number
AD0422294

Entities

People

  • J. W. Miles

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Diffraction
  • Flight
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves
  • Stationary
  • Supersonic Flight
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow