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Shock-wave induced instability in internal explosion dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

A. Bagabir  and
D. Drikakis
A. Bagabir
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Sciences, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
D. Drikakis
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Sciences, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
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Abstract

The paper presents an investigation of flow instabilities occurring in shock-wave propagation and interaction with the walls of an enclosure. The shock-wave propagation is studied in connection with perturbed and unperturbed cylindrical blasts, initially placed in the centre of the enclosure, as well as for three different blast intensities corresponding to Mach numbers Ms = 2, 5 and 10. The instability is manifested by a symmetry-breaking of the flow even for the case of an initially perfectly-symmetric blast. It is shown that the symmetry-breaking initiates around the centre of the enclosure as a result of the interaction of the shock waves reflected from the walls, with the low-density region in the centre of the explosion. The instability leads to fast attenuation of the shock waves, especially for smaller initial blast intensities. The computations reveal that the vortical flow structures arising from the multiple shock reflections and flow instability are Mach number dependent. The existence of perturbations of large amplitude in the initial condition strengthens the instability and has significant effects on the instantaneous wall pressure distributions. The computational investigation has been performed using high-resolution Riemann solvers for the gas dynamic equations.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 109 , Issue 1101 , November 2005 , pp. 537 - 556
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2005 

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