| Abstract: | Profiles and values of pressure in shock waves are determined for the case of spherical, linear, and spatial charges, such
as a coil of a bulk spiral and plane annular coils and Archimedes’ spiral of various lenths, exploded in air. In the case
of explosion of rings and spirals, a complex wave structure in the form of a sequence of several shock waves is registered
near the charges along the spiral axes; a weaker attenuation of shock waves with distance and pressure amplitudes two to three
times higher than in the case of a spherical charge of the same mass are observed. It was found that an increase in the length
of a plane spiral does not lead to an increase in the maximum pressure in the shock wave at distances of the order of several
pitches of the spiral from its plane. With distance from spatial charges of different shape but identical mass, the pressure
values in the shock-wave fronts coincide and tend asymptotically to the parameters of a spherical explosion with a significant
increase in the duration of a wave packet generated by the spatial charge. Dependences for evaluation of shock-wave pressure
amplitudes in the near zone of the explosion are presented.
Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from
Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 81–90, September–October, 2000. |
