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Shock Focusing Phenomena [electronic resource] : High Energy Density Phenomena and Dynamics of Converging Shocks / by Nicholas Apazidis, Veronica Eliasson.

By: Apazidis, Nicholas [author.].
Contributor(s): Eliasson, Veronica [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019Edition: 1st ed. 2019.Description: XII, 158 p. 153 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319758664.Subject(s): Thermodynamics | Heat engineering | Heat transfer | Mass transfer | Continuum mechanics | Chemistry, Technical | Fluid mechanics | Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer | Continuum Mechanics | Industrial Chemistry | Engineering Fluid DynamicsAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 621.4021 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: 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.
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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.

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.

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