Shock waves and explosions. (©2004)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Shock waves and explosions. (©2004)
- Main Title:
- Shock waves and explosions
- Further Information:
- Note: P.L. Sachdev.
- Other Names:
- Sachdev, P. L
- Contents:
- INTRODUCTION; ; THE PISTON PROBLEM; Introduction; The Piston Problem--Its Connection with the Blast Wave; Piston Problem in the Phase Plane; Cauchy Problem in Relation to Automodel Solution of One-Dimensional Nonsteady Gas Flows; Uniform Expansion of a Cylinder of Sphere into Still Air--An Analytic Solution of the Boundary Value Problem; Plane Gas Dynamics in Transformed Coordinates; ; THE BLAST WAVE; Introduction; Approximate Analytic Solution of the Blast Wave Problem Involving Shock of Moderate Strength; Blast Wave in Lagrangian Coordinates; Point Explosion in an Exponential Atmosphere; Asymptotic Behaviour of Blast Waves at High Altitude; Strong Explosion into a Power Law Density Medium; Strong Explosion in Power Law Nonuniform Medium--Self-similar Solutions of the Second Kind; Point Explosion with Heat Conduction; The Blast Wave at a Large Distance; ; SHOCK PROPAGATION THEORIES--SOME INITIAL STUDIES; Shock Wave Theory of Kirkwood and Bethe; The Brinkley-Kirkwood Theory; Pressure Behind the Shock--A Practical Formula; ; SOME EXACT ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS OF GASDYNAMIC EQUATIONS INVOLVING SHOCKS; Exact Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Flows in Eulerian Coordinates; Exact Solutions of Gasdynamic Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates; Exact Solutions of Gasdynamic Equations with Nonlinear Particle Velocity; ; CONVERGING SHOCK WAVES; Converging Shock Waves--The Implosion Problem; Spherical Converging Shock Waves--Shock Exponent via the Pressure Maximum; Converging Shock WavesINTRODUCTION; ; THE PISTON PROBLEM; Introduction; The Piston Problem--Its Connection with the Blast Wave; Piston Problem in the Phase Plane; Cauchy Problem in Relation to Automodel Solution of One-Dimensional Nonsteady Gas Flows; Uniform Expansion of a Cylinder of Sphere into Still Air--An Analytic Solution of the Boundary Value Problem; Plane Gas Dynamics in Transformed Coordinates; ; THE BLAST WAVE; Introduction; Approximate Analytic Solution of the Blast Wave Problem Involving Shock of Moderate Strength; Blast Wave in Lagrangian Coordinates; Point Explosion in an Exponential Atmosphere; Asymptotic Behaviour of Blast Waves at High Altitude; Strong Explosion into a Power Law Density Medium; Strong Explosion in Power Law Nonuniform Medium--Self-similar Solutions of the Second Kind; Point Explosion with Heat Conduction; The Blast Wave at a Large Distance; ; SHOCK PROPAGATION THEORIES--SOME INITIAL STUDIES; Shock Wave Theory of Kirkwood and Bethe; The Brinkley-Kirkwood Theory; Pressure Behind the Shock--A Practical Formula; ; SOME EXACT ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS OF GASDYNAMIC EQUATIONS INVOLVING SHOCKS; Exact Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Flows in Eulerian Coordinates; Exact Solutions of Gasdynamic Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates; Exact Solutions of Gasdynamic Equations with Nonlinear Particle Velocity; ; CONVERGING SHOCK WAVES; Converging Shock Waves--The Implosion Problem; Spherical Converging Shock Waves--Shock Exponent via the Pressure Maximum; Converging Shock Waves Caused by Spherical or Cylindrical Piston Motions; ; SPHERICAL BLAST WAVES PRODUCED BY SUDDEN EXPANSION OF A HIGH PRESSURE GAS; Introduction; Expansion of a High Pressure Gas into Air--A Series Solution; Blast Wave Caused by the Expansion of a High Pressure Gas Sphere--An Approximate Analytic Solution; ; NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF BLAST WAVES; Introduction; A Brief Review of Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems; Blast Wave Computations via Artificial Viscosity; Converging Cylindrical Shock Waves; Numerical Simulation of Explosions Using Total Variation Diminishing Scheme; ; REFERENCES; ; INDEX … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Copyright Date:
- 2004
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 518/.64
Differential equations, Hyperbolic -- Numerical solutions
Shock waves -- Mathematics
MATHEMATICS -- Numerical Analysis
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1420035193
9781420035193
9781584884224
1584884223 - Related ISBNs:
- 1584884223
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
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