Note on Finite Amplitude Propagation Effects on Shock Wave Travel Times from Explosions at High Altitude

1 September 1959

journal article
conference paper
Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Vol. 31 (9) , 1265
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1907858

Abstract

Consequences are given of taking into account energy loss, in addition to lengthening of the overpressure phase, of a weak shock wave traveling vertically downward in an exponentially stratified atmosphere.

Keywords

SHOCK WAVES