| Abstract: | The method proposed in 1, 2] is used to construct an analytic solution of the problem of two incompressible plates propelled by the explosion products of a condensed explosive. A solution of the problem by the classical methods of the gas dynamics of a perfect gas with  =3 was previously obtained in 3]. However, the analysis carried out in 3] does not reproduce the entire wave configuration which may result from the interaction of expansion waves with moving plates and is limited to the study of the flow configuration realized in the case of single reflection of the waves from the plate contact boundary. This leads to overestimation of the limiting projection velocities when the relative masses of the plates are greater than unity.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 148–152, March–April, 1991. |
