Computational Studies of Wave-Shaping in a Blast Simulator by Perforated Plates in the Driver

Abstract

Computational simulation of shock tubes with baffles on their driver sections were performed using the (BRL) Quasi-One-Dimensional (Q1D) computer code. The credibility of the code was established through comparisons with experimental data. A numerical parametric study was performed in which baffle positions and area openings in a computational model of a candidate Large Blast/Thermal Simulator (LB/TS) were manipulated until blast wave forms at weapon yields of interest were obtained.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188200

Entities

People

  • D. M. Hisley

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast Waves
  • Commerce
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Euler Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Military Applications
  • Military Research
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Shock Tubes
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)