Beyond Three Decades of Continuous Research at UTIAS on Shock Tubes and Waves.
Abstract
Analytical and experimental research on nonstationary shock waves, rarefaction waves and contact surfaces has been conducted continuously since 1948. Some unique facilities were used to study the properties of planar, cylindrical and spherical shock waves and their interactions. Investigations were also performed on shock-wave structure and boundary layers in ionizing argon, water-vapor condensation in rarefaction waves, magnetogasdynamic flows, and the regions of regular and various types of Mach reflections of oblique shock waves. Explosively-driven implosions have been employed as drivers for projectile launchers and shock tubes, and as a means of producing industrial-type diamonds from graphite, and fusion plasmas in deuterium. The effects of sonic-boom on humans, animals and structures have also formed an important part of the investigations. More recently, interest has focused on shock waves in dusty gases, the viscous and vibrational structure of weak spherical blast waves in air, and oblique shock-wave reflections. In all of these studies instrumentation and computational methods have played a very important role. A brief survey of this work is given with some perspectives on future research.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA108417
Entities
People
- Irvine I. Glass
Organizations
- University of Toronto