A THEORY OF COMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOW WITH APPLICATIONS TO LATE-TIME FIREBALL MIXING

Abstract

The report discusses the motion of gases and weapon debris and the temperature distribution in the immediate vicinity of the rising late-time fireball of a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere. 'Late-time' loosely denotes that period after the fireball has adjusted to the pressure of the ambient atmosphere. A technique is described for the solution of a class of problems in compressible turbulent flow, and it is applied to a problem involving the rise and the entrainment of ambient air by the latetime fireball.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0610641

Entities

People

  • Charles L. Dolph
  • John W. Mckee

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convolution Integrals
  • Differential Equations
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulent Flow

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.