Multiple Shock-Waves Collisions And Energy Balance In Ionized Gases

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Prohoroff
1960 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. T. Winter

This paper describes a theory for a piston-operated compressor in which shock waves are used to heat the gas being compressed. Detailed calculations are given showing the use of such a compressor to heat air for use in a hypersonic wind tunnel. The effect of real gas properties on the compression process is included in this discussion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 287-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pu Cui ◽  
A-Man Zhang ◽  
Shiping Wang ◽  
Boo Cheong Khoo

This work focuses on using the power of a collapsing bubble in ice breaking. We experimentally validated the possibility and investigated the mechanism of ice breaking with a single collapsing bubble, where the bubble was generated by underwater electric discharge and collapsed at various distances under ice plates with different thicknesses. Characteristics of the ice fracturing, bubble jets and shock waves emitted during the collapse of the bubble were captured. The pattern of the ice fracturing is related to the ice thickness and the bubble–ice distance. Fractures develop from the top of the ice plate, i.e. the ice–air interface, and this is attributed to the tension caused by the reflection of the shock waves at the interface. Such fracturing is lessened when the thickness of the ice plate or the bubble–ice distance increases. Fractures may also form from the bottom of the ice plate upon the shock wave incidence when the bubble–ice distance is sufficiently small. The ice plate motion and its effect on the bubble behaviour were analysed. The ice plate motion results in higher jet speed and greater elongation of the bubble shape along the vertical direction. It also causes the bubble initiated close to the ice plate to split and emit multiple shock waves at the end of the collapse. The findings suggest that collapsing bubbles can be used as a brand new way of ice breaking.


Author(s):  
Khaled Alhussan

In this paper some characteristics of non-steady, compressible, flow are explored, including compression and expansion waves creation reflection and interaction shock waves. The work to be presented herein is a Computational Fluid Dynamics investigation of the complex fluid phenomena that occur inside 2-D and 3-D regions, specifically with regard to the structure of the oblique shock waves, the reflected shock waves and the interactions of the shock waves. The flow is so complex that there exist oblique shock waves, expansion fans, slip surfaces, and shock wave reflections and interactions. The flow is non-steady, viscous, compressible, and high-speed supersonic. This paper will show a relationship between the Mach numbers and the angles of the reflected shock waves, over a double step, opposed equal wedges, and opposed unequal wedges. The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the flow inside 2-D and 3-D regions where creation, reflection and interaction of multiple shock waves.


1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Bordzilovskii ◽  
S. M. Karakhanov
Keyword(s):  

1989 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 248-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brouillette ◽  
Bradford Sturtevant
Keyword(s):  

2007 ◽  
Vol 566 ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideki Hamashima ◽  
Akinori Osada ◽  
Shigeru Itoh ◽  
Yukio Kato

Some liquid explosives have two different detonation behaviors: high velocity detonation (HVD) or low velocity detonation (LVD). The detonation behavior depends on the level of the initiating shock pressure. The detailed structure of LVD in liquid explosives has not yet been clarified. A physical model was proposed that LVD is not a self-reactive detonation, but rather a supported-reactive detonation from the cavitation field generated by precursor shock waves. In this study, high-speed photography was used to investigate the detonation behavior of nitromethane (NM) with the various initiating shock pressures. Stable LVD was not observed, only transient LVD was observed. A very complicated structure of LVD was observed: the interaction of multiple precursor shock waves, multiple oblique shock waves, and a cavitation field. Multiple shock waves propagating in non-detonating NM were observed for shock pressures below the range required for LVD, while above the LVD range HVD was observed.


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