On the Nature of Non-Ideal Blast Waves.

Abstract

Contained herein are a description of a model and a calculation procedure for planar, cylindrical or spherical geometries used to predict the flow-field parameters for non-steady, non-ideal blast waves, generated by the deposition of energy over a known temporal and spatial regime. This modeling consists of adding energy into a constant heat capacity gas and numerically integrating the equations of motion using a constant time-step method of characteristics, with appropriate initial and boundary conditions. Two non-dimensional parameters are presented which relate similar non-ideal energy sources and predict that their limit behaviors should approach an ideal point source on one hand and the source which generates a propagating acoustic wave on the other. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0780113

Entities

People

  • Andrew A. Adamczyk
  • Roger A. Stehlow

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Boundaries
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Geometry
  • Heat Capacity
  • Method Of Characteristics
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)