Numerical study of spherical blast-wave propagation and reflection

DOI10.1007/S00193-002-0142-5MaRDI QIDQ1849286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 1 December 2002

Published in Shock Waves (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-002-0142-5

zbMATH Keywords

compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes equationsdouble Mach reflectionfifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemefinite volume approachflat platefourth-order Runge-Kutta methodfree fieldlocal high-pressure regionsreal-gas modelregular reflectionspherical blast waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

Review text

The objective is to understand the flow structures of weak and strong spherical blast waves either propagating in a free field or interacting with a flat plate. A fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme with a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is employed to solve compressible Euler/Navier-Stokes equations by a finite volume approach. A high-resolution Euler/Navier-Stokes solver with a real-gas model is developed and used to investigate the propagation of a spherical blast wave in the free field and the reflection phenomenon of the blast wave when interacting with the flat plate. The solver is validated to be reasonably accurate on several test problems. For the problem of blast-wave propagation in the free field, it is found that three outward-moving weaker shock waves develop behind the primary shock wave, and a contact surface is formed. For the problem of weak blast-wave interaction with the flat plate, the authors observe complicated shock-shock interactions in addition to the basic flow structure for the blast-wave propagation in the free field. Moreover, it is found that there is a transition from regular reflection to Mach reflection in a turbulent flow, delayed compared with that for inviscid flow or for laminar flow. For the problem of strong blast-wave interaction with flat plate, the authors investigate a complicated flow structure associated with the transition from regular reflection to double Mach reflection. It is found that near the flat plate there are at least three local high-pressure regions behind the curved Mach stem, resulting in an over-turning effect in addition to the crushing effect in very high explosions.

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