Relationships between Liquid Atomization and Solid Fragmentation

Abstract

This paper surveys fragment size distributions found in the research literature, including specific examples of Weibull, Gamma, and root normal size distributions. This paper finds that, in many instances, the solid and liquid fragmentation communities have independently discovered the same or similar fragment size distributions. In addition, this paper shows that the solid and liquid fragmentation communities have independently discovered nearly the same expressions for average fragment sizes. These observations are surprising, given the fundamental phenomenological differences between liquid and solid fragmentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1004358

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  • Culbert B. Laney

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  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosives
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Fuel Oils
  • Fuels
  • High Explosives
  • Information Processing
  • Liquid Jets
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Statistics
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Statistical inference.
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