Conventional Weapons Underwater Explosions

Abstract

Results are reported upon from an ONR-sponsored workshop in conventional weapons underwater explosions. The report contains background tutorial material as well as workshop results. Organized into sub-groups, individual workshop reports are presented in the areas of detonations, bubble dynamics, bubble-water interface phenomena and metal combustion behavior. It was concluded that there are many potential research areas which require attention to bring the phenomena under scientific understanding and control. The general areas of research recommended involve metal behavior, experimental diagnostics and verifiable computational methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201814

Entities

People

  • Warren C. Strahle

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Equations Of State
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Kinetics
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.