Observation of high-pressure blast-wave decursors
- 8 July 1991
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 59 (2) , 246-248
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105980
Abstract
We observe, for the first time in a laboratory, the formation of decursors at intersections of planar surfaces with powerful blast waves. The blast waves, which have hundreds-kilobar overpressures, are created by rapid ablation of material heated with an intense laser beam.Keywords
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