QUALITATIVE INTERFEROMETRY OF EXPANDING METAL VAPOR

Abstract

Single and multiple fringe interferograms have been in use in recent years to obtain gas and electron distributions about an exploding wire. Until recently not much quantitative evidence has been obtained about the flow of the metal vapor produced by exploding wires. The purpose of this paper is to establish some geometrical techniques and mathematical relations upon which subsequent analyses of this metal vapor flow, seen in the existing interferograms, may be based. This paper offers certain flow hypotheses, shows the resulting fringe contours for both the single and multiple fringe cases, and compares these fringe contours with some interferograms obtained experimentally.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0699313

Entities

People

  • F. D. Bennett
  • F. N. Weber Jr.
  • G. D. Kahl

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Exploding Wires
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Hypotheses
  • Interferograms
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metal Vapors
  • Military Research
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Vapors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Metallurgy

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene