Techniques for Analysis and Validation of Unsteady Blast Wave Propagation

Abstract

Several best practices were developed for performing blast wave propagation analysis using Fluent, a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package. The purpose of this was to be able to quickly simulate the blast field around large caliber gun systems. These best practices include the areas of determining initial grid quality and characteristics, solver selection and discretization scheme, solver stability on initial start-up, unsteady grid adaption, and solver space domain selection. In addition, validation and verification are discussed. Techniques for post-processing unsteady blast data are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA417157

Entities

People

  • Daniel L. Cler

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Blast
  • Blast Waves
  • Cell Size
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Explosions
  • Far Field
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Military Research
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Validation
  • Vehicles
  • Verification
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space