Effect of overtaking disturbances on the motion of a shock wave due to an intense explosion
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 25 (1) , 45-47
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863627
Abstract
The Chester, Chisnell, and Whitham approximation has been applied to the Sedov problem of an explosion in a medium of uniform density. It is noted that the error in the propagation parameter K is 70% or more. The reason for this discrepancy has been explained.Keywords
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