Analytical and experimental research on nonstationary shock waves, rarefaction waves and contact surfaces is reviewed. 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 were 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 formed an important part of the investigations. Shock waves in dusty gases, the viscous and vibrational structure of weak spherical blast waves in air, and oblique shock wave reflections were emphasized.


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    Titel :

    Beyond Three Decades of Continuous Research at UTIAS on Shock Tubes and Waves


    Beteiligte:
    I. I. Glass (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1981


    Format / Umfang :

    80 pages



    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch