Shock Focusing Phenomena - High Energy Density Phenomena and Dynamics of Converging Shocks

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.

List of 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nichola Apazidis, Nicholas Apazidis, Veronica Eliasson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319758640
• ISBN: 978-3-31-975864-0
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 16 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Illustrations: XII, 158 p. 153 illus.
• Series: Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena; Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; B, engineering, Thermodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Fluid mechanics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Fluids, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics of fluids, Heat engineering, Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Industrial chemistry & chemical engineering, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Continuum Mechanics