Strong explosion near a parallelepipedic structure

The purpose of this paper is to report the blast loading characteristics resulting from the detonation of a stoichiometric propane–oxygen mixture, and to validate the approach which relies on simulating TNT explosions at large scale by small-scale experiments of gaseous explosions. Several dimensionless correlations are obtained from experimental data. These relationships allow determination of the parameters of a blast wave interacting with a structure as a function of the positions of the explosive charge and the structure. Simulations carried out with the Autodyn code show good correlation with experimental results. The Hopkinson law is suggested to predict the blast wave’s parameters at large scale on the basis of small-scale experiments and simulations. This paper was based on work that was presented at the 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, July 31–August 5, 2005.     

Background oriented schlieren for flow visualisation in hypersonic impulse facilities

Experiments to demonstrate the use of the background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique in hypersonic impulse facilities are reported. BOS uses a simple optical set-up consisting of a structured background pattern, an electronic camera with a high shutter speed and a high intensity light source. The visualization technique is demonstrated in a small reflected shock tunnel with a Mach 4 conical nozzle, nozzle supply pressure of 2.2 MPa and nozzle supply enthalpy of 1.8 MJ/kg. A 20° sharp circular cone and a model of the MUSES-C re-entry body were tested. Images captured were processed using PIV-style image analysis to visualize variations in the density field. The shock angle on the cone measured from the BOS images agreed with theoretical calculations to within 0.5°. Shock standoff distances could be measured from the BOS image for the re-entry body. Preliminary experiments are also reported in higher enthalpy facilities where flow luminosity can interfere with imaging of the background pattern. A version of this paper was presented at the 25th International Symposium on Shock Waves in Bangalore in July 2005.     

Interaction of a shock wave with a loose dusty bulk layer

The interaction of a planar shock wave with a loose dusty bulk layer has been investigated both experimentally and numerically. Experiments were conducted in a shock tube. The incident shock wave velocity and particle diameters were measured with the use of pressure transducers and a Malvern particle sizer, respectively. The flow fields, induced by shock waves, of both gas and granular phase were visualized by means of shadowgraphs and pulsed X-ray radiography with trace particles added. In addition, a two-phase model for granular flow presented by Gidaspow is introduced and is extended to describe such a complex phenomenon. Based on the kinetic theory, such a two-phase model has the advantage of being able to clarify many physical concepts, like particulate viscosity, granular conductivity and solid pressure, and deduce the correlative constitutive equations of the solid phase. The AUSM scheme was employed for the numerical calculation. The flow field behind the shock wave was displayed numerically and agrees well with our corresponding experimental results.      

地震CT与FBG传感器技术在隧道结构诊断中的应用

针对飞鱼泽隧道的上行线二衬拱顶靠档墙处出现裂缝,经地震CT技术查清隧道上所覆盖岩体的工程地质结构结果表明,沿隧道轴向存在三个岩体破碎带,其中在小里程入口段,岩体完整性较差。在隧道病害治理和隧道健康监测中,经光纤Bragg光栅（FBG）传感器的监测结果表明,松散破碎岩体的地质情况得到了相应的加固。因此,地震CT和FBG两者的检测结论是相互印证的。     

Head on collision of a planar shock wave with a dusty gas layer

The head-on collision of a planar shock wave with a dust-air suspension is studied numerically. In this study the suspension is placed inside a conduit adjacent to its rigid end-wall. It is shown that as a result of this collision two different types of transmitted shock waves are possible, depending on the strength of the incident shock wave and the dust loading ratio in the suspension. One possibility is a partially dispersed shock wave, the other is a compression wave. The flow fields resulting in these two options are investigated. It is shown that in both cases, at late times after the head-on reflection of the transmitted shock wave from the conduit end-wall a negative flow (away from the end-wall) is evident. The observed flow behavior may suggest a kind of dust particle lifting mechanism that could shed new light on the complex phenomenon of dust entrainment behind sliding shock waves.      

On the pressure of cavitation bubbles

Shock wave emission upon the collapse of a cavitation bubble attached to a rigid wall is investigated using high-speed photography with 200 million frames/s and 5 ns exposure time. At a distance of 68 μm from the bubble wall, the shock pressure is 1.3 ± 0.3 GPa. The shock pressure decays proportionally to r^−1.5 with increasing distance from the bubble. An estimation of the peak pressure at the bubble wall reveals a pressure of about 8 GPa. A major part of the shock wave energy is dissipated within the first 100 μm from the bubble wall.     

Parametric investigation of particle acceleration in high enthalpy conical nozzle flows for coating applications

A modified cold gas-dynamic spray technique is under development by using shock tunnel technology, which can enhance the coating quality by increasing the solid particle velocity up to 1,500 m/s. The particle diameter typically amounts to 10 μm. A theoretical model based on gas-particle flows is employed to describe the behaviour of the flow and the solid particles. This quasi-1D model is capable to consider non-equilibrium effects of the gas phase due to high reservoir temperatures, and the influence of wall friction and heat transfer averaged over the nozzle cross section. This model is used for the design and optimization of the nozzle geometry by a parametric study, which results in a conical nozzle with a half opening angle of 2.8° and a length of 325 mm. Particles for coating are injected at about 55 mm downstream of the throat. A shock tunnel facility has been set up at the Shock Wave Laboratory for performing an experimental study of this new technique. The theoretical performance of this setup is evaluated by the KASIMIR simulation software and the quasi-1D method described in this paper. The high reservoir conditions required to achieve particle velocities of 1,500 m/s can be realized by using either a very high driver pressure of about 600 bar for air as driver gas or a relatively low driver pressure of about 200 bar for helium as driver gas.      

Numerical investigation of ethylene flame bubble instability induced by shock waves

In this paper, the ethylene/oxygen/nitrogen premixed flame instabilities induced by incident and reflected shock wave were investigated numerically. The effects of grid resolutions and chemical mechanisms on the flame bubble deformation process are evaluated. In the computational frame, the 2D multi-component Navier–Stokes equations with second-order flux-difference splitting scheme were used; the stiff chemical source term was integrated using an implicit ordinary differential equations (ODEs) solver. The two ethylene/oxygen/nitrogen chemical mechanisms, namely 3-step reduced mechanism and 35-step elementary skeletal mechanism, were used to examine the reliability of chemistry. On the other hand, the different grid sizes, Δx × Δy = 0.25 × 0.5mm and Δx × Δy = 0.15 × 0.2mm, were implemented to examine the accuracy of the grid resolution. The computational results were qualitatively validated with experimental results of Thomas et al. (Combust Theory Model 5:573–594, 2001). Two chemical mechanisms and two grid resolutions used in present study can qualitatively reproduce the ethylene spherical flame instability process generated by an incident shock wave of Mach number 1.7. For the case of interaction between the flame and reflected shock waves, the 35-steps mechanism qualitatively predicts the physical process and is somewhat independent on the grid resolutions, while the 3-steps mechanism fails to reproduce the instability of ethylene flame for the two selected grid resolutions. It is concluded that the detailed chemical mechanism, which includes the chain elementary reactions of fuel combustion, describes the flame instability induced by shock wave, in spite of the fact that the flame thickness (reaction zone) is represented by 1–2 grids only.      

Behavior of the surface of a bubbly liquid after detonation wave impact

In safety engineering, one position of interest inside heterogeneous systems of the type liquid–gas is the contact surface between these two phases. Under certain conditions, e.g. shock wave impact, phenomena can take place at this position that can have a significant influence on the explosion behavior of the system. In this work an investigation is presented about the existence of such phenomena on the surface of liquid cyclohexane with or without the existence of oxygen containing bubbles. The observations have been performed during the time before, as well as after, a detonation wave reflection on that surface. High-speed pressure and optical measurements have been applied. Apart from the experimental observations, also a theoretical analysis and discussion is presented in this contribution, which contains the comparison between calculated and experimental values.     

A State-of-the-Knowledge Review on Pseudo-Steady Shock-Wave Reflections and their Transition Criteria

The distinguished philosopher Ernst Mach published the first known paper on the phenomenon of planar shock-wave reflections over straight wedges over 125 years ago in 1878. In his publication he presented two wave configurations that could result from this reflection process, a regular reflection (RR) and a configuration that was later named after him and called Mach reflection (MR) in the early 1940s. In 1945, Smith reported on an additional wave configuration, which had a reflected shock wave that was slightly different from that of the just-mentioned Mach reflection. Smith (OSRD Rep. 6271, Off. Sci. Res. Dev., 1945) did not ascribe any special importance to the wave configuration that he observed. The wave configuration that was observed and reported by Smith (OSRD Rep. 6271, Off. Sci. Res. Dev., 1945) was recognized as an independent one only about 5 years later when White (Tech. Rep. II-10, Princeton Univ. Dept. Phys., 1951) reported on the discovery of a new wave configuration that was named double-Mach reflections (DMR) because it had similar features to that of the Mach reflection wave configuration but all the features were doubled. For this reason the Mach reflection wave configuration has been re-named single-Mach reflection (SMR). (Until the late 1970s it was called simple-Mach reflection although nothing is simple about it.). The discovery of the double-Mach reflection revealed that the wave configuration that was first observed by Smith was an intermediate wave configuration between the SMR and the DMR wave configurations. For this reason it was named transitional-Mach reflection (TMR) (Until the early 1980s it was called complex-Mach reflection although it is not the most complex one.). Since the discovery of the DMR many investigations were aimed at elucidating the exact transition criteria between the above-mentioned four different wave configurations as well as some additional configurations and sub-configurations that were discovered later. In 1991 Ben-Dor published a monograph, entitled “Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena”, that was, in fact, a state-of-the-knowledge review of the phenomena. This state-of-the-knowledge will be referred to in the followings as the “old”-state-of-the-knowledge (This state-of-the-knowledge existed until the mid 1990s. A few years later Li and Ben-Dor (Shock Wave 5(1/2), 59–73, 1995) modified the analytical approach for evaluating the transition criteria from the single-Mach to the transitional- Mach reflection (SMR, ,TMR) and from the transitional-Mach to the double-Mach reflection (TMR, ,DMR) and presented some modified and new criteria for the formation and termination of both the TMR and DMR wave configurations. Experimental results from various sources revealed that the transition boundaries between the SMR, TMR and DMR wave configurations that were based on the modified analytical approach were better than those of the “old” state-of-the-knowledge that as mentioned earlier was summarized in Ben-Dor’s (Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena, Springer, 1991) monograph. Unfortunately, however, the results of Li and Ben-Dor’s (Shock Wave 5(1/2), 59–73, 1995) modified analytical approach have not been internalized, and publications by various scientists in the past decade neglected the revised and better transition criteria and kept on referring to the old and wrong criteria that appeared in Ben-Dor’s (Shock Wave Reflection Phenomena, Springer, 1991) monograph. For this reason, a state-of-the-knowledge review that is based on the above-mentioned 10-year-old findings of Li and Ben-Dor (Shock Wave 5(1/2), 59–73, 1995) is presented herein. At the first step, the “old” state-of-the-knowledge is presented.This paper was based on work that was presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Shock Wave Research, Sendai, Japan, 1–3 March 2005.