Shock Focusing Phenomena [electronic resource] : High Energy Density Phenomena and Dynamics of Converging Shocks / by Nicholas Apazidis, Veronica Eliasson
Imprint
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019
One of the main reasons for continuing interest in shock focusing is its ability to concentrate energy in a small volume and produce extreme temperatures and pressures in fluids in a controlled laboratory environment. The phenomenon of shock wave focusing leading to extreme conditions in fluids during micro- and nanosecond time intervals is a spectacular example of mechanics at small length and time scales revealing the major properties of shock dynamics including high-temperature gas phenomena. Production of high-energy concentrations in gases and fluids with star-like temperatures and extreme pressures by means of a stable imploding shock is of great interest not only in its own right but also because of the connection to a multitude of phenomena in nature, technology and medicine
CONTENT
Introduction -- Shock Focusing vs Explosions -- On stability of converging shocks -- Shock Focusing in Nature (for example collapse of supernovae and pistol shrimp) -- “Man-made” shock focusing -- Challenges -- Experimental approach overview -- Gases -- Liquids -- Solids -- Applications -- Summary and outlook
SUBJECT
Engineering
Chemical engineering
Hydraulic engineering
Engineering Thermodynamics
Heat and Mass Transfer. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/T14000
Fluid- and Aerodynamics. http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/P21026