Simulation of Complex Shock Reflections from Wedges in Inert and Reactive Gaseous Mixtures

Abstract

The Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) technique for solving fluid equations reduces numerical diffusion, permitting calculations with Reynolds numbers considerably in excess of the cell Reynolds number. Recent advances in FCT, including a multidimensional flux limiter and a dynamic adaptive rezone, are illustrated in the problem of transient reflections of planar shocks from wedges in inert and reactive media. Results are obtained with high resolution which are in quantitative agreement with experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090115

Entities

People

  • A. Kuhl
  • D. Book
  • E. Oran
  • J. Boris
  • M. Picone

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Civil Engineering
  • Diffusion
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Physics
  • Reflection
  • Reynolds Number
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Transport Ships
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Underwater engineering and Marine Technology.