Shock wave Definition and 53 Threads

I am trying to follow a derivation of the Rankine-Hugoniot equations in a paper by Peter Krehl titled: The classical Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions, an important cornerstone of modern shock wave physics: ideal assumptions vs. reality This paper talks about the RH equations which relate...

I read on Wikipedia , Encyclopedia Britannica and threads on this forum that shockwaves travel faster than the speed of sound, but when I watched this youTube video, it appears that even a shockwave from a C4 detonation travels at about the speed of sound. I have extracted a couple of frames...

the attempted is the above ex. i needa justify why and figure out the reason behind those relevant equations.

This was a Halliday Resnick Problem on the linear motion. I could have see the solution but I was not satisfied because I have not get the idea behind the solution. Could you please help me to explain what is exactly the problem is? Or, how to model the shock wave? So that I can make the...

I need some help understanding shock waves, particularly the units of measure related to their pressure. Shock waves are frequently quantified as multiples of G, the gravitational constant. I need to understand how the G measurements related to the instantaneous pressure within the wave as...

There is lots of good information online about shock waves but I'm not finding what I want. If dynamite has a detonation rate of 6800 m/s does the shock wave travel at 6800 m/s? Is sound we hear 1 mile away the shock wave or the sound? What speed is an atom bomb shock wave? This large horn...

I don’t get where exactly the lengths start and end in figure.

I am struggling to understand shocks in a one dimensional lattice with a linear spring connecting the masses. Say I have a one dimensional lattice with a linear spring constant, k and lattice spacing a. If the particles in the lattice has mass, m then my speed of sound c is a*sqrt(k/m). That is...

This is a fluid dynamic simulation. The top area has 100 degrees Celsius. The bottom area has 0 degrees Celsius. And both are filled with an ideal gas which is 1-atmosphere pressure. Two areas are connected through the left small line. Another part is blocked. So heat transfer can only happen...

I draw this picture in order to solve this problem. My first attempt was find the hypotenuse of the triangle and divide it by the speed of sound wave. d=a/sin(θ) d=4483.43m t=d/c=13.07 sec However, I am not sure whether I did it correctly or not... It looks the time is too big as an answer... I...

I am trying to come up with a design for a device that can generate very high and very brief waves of pressure directed at a 1 mm diameter target (shown as "E" in "Diagram.PNG") housed in a steel support structure "D". The idea is to accelerate hammer "A" towards anvil "B" in a vacuum tube. The...

I was in an argument about a jet engine and I was arguing that since there is a cutoff in terminology what would kill someone approaching a engine is not technically sound, but a shock wave, (I'm probably wrong about this, but that's not the question). That got me wondering how waves can catch...

Would an A36 steel tube filled with liquid mercury be able to transmit a shock wave longitudinally through the liquid mercury with a peak pressure higher than the yield strength of the steel tube? My thinking is that since the shock wave is traveling normal to the tube wall, it should not be...

So when the source is not vibrating, it is not setting waves due to vibration? But it is moving so it is still causing disturbance in the medium ... And I happened to read that if the source is moving faster than the speed of sound, a shock wave is set up. How ?

Homework Statement This is Rankine-Hugoniot conditions at a hydrodynamic shock front. Where P2=0 v2=0. The problem is attached. I need to solve a system of equations. I thought it would be relatively straight forward solving for the three unknowns but I'm struggling. I know it's possible to...

Hello! (Wave) I want to solve the equation $u_t+uu_x=0$ with the initial condition $u(x,0)=1$ for $x \leq 0$, $1-x$ for $0 \leq x \leq 1$ and $0$ for $x \geq 1$. I want to solve it for all $t \geq 0$, allowing for a shock wave. I also want to find exactly where the shock is and show that it...

A body is reentering the Earth's atmosphere at a Mach number of 20. In front of the body is a shock wave. Opposite the nose of the body, the shock can be seen to be normal to the flow direction. Determine the stagnation pressure and temperature to which the nose is subjected. Assume that the air...

Hi everyone, I'm having some difficulty comprehending "normal" transmission of stress/strain through a solid body and "shock" transmission of stress/strain. Imagine I have two bodies, one rigid - the other elastic. If the rigid body is fixed in space, and the elastic body is flying at the...

Homework Statement Homework Equations N/A The Attempt at a Solution I can't even understand the question and what is happening in the situation :(

I stumbled upon this concept when studying gas dynamics. What I get from my readings it must occur when Mach number is really close to 1. But I didn't understand how the property relations across a shock wave is affected by it.

Am not sure if I've posted in the right section but I couldn't find anything relevant to Waves in Supersonic Flow, so apologise in advance! Post is a little long but I will appreciate any help! Academically am not very gifted and also have a mathematics disability so I tend to question even the...

How would one calculate the speed of a shock wave or intensity? For example, let's say something with a mass of 10 kg, with a velocity of 1000 m/s, travling in a straight line ,in Earth's atmosphere, at sea level . what formulas would one use to figure this out? Thanks in advanced

I have a physics question about slamming doors and explosions. I've heard before that an explosion releases shock waves through the air that can severely damage a person's vital organs. Recently, I had a door slammed in my face (not literally, it did not hit my face). This wasn't a normal "door...

A jet flying directly over you at an altitude of 3300 m produces a shock wave. The angle of the shock wave is 43 degrees. How long will it be until the sonic boom reaches you? How far does the jet travel during this time interval? I know that I can figure out the second part of this problem if...

So I was sitting around pondering about forces, and I found myself thinking about shock-waves. Whether they're caused by supersonic travel, or explosions, the pressure at the front of the wave-bow shock pressure is a force. So I started thinking of a way to generate them without having to go...

Hi all, I have some prob to undestand the shock wave in compressible flow, more precisely the "theta, beta, Mach curve) - Why when "theta" exceeds theta (max) there is no oblique shock? (how we can explain this physicaly)? - What is the difference betwwen weak shock and strong shock? - why in...

When the powerful (nuclear) bomb explodes it generates the shock wave that destroys everything around it. I want to know, does the force of this shock wave depend on the air pressure and density? Imagine that we have got powerful (nuclear) bomb and the object (rocket in this case) that is...

Homework Statement A shock wave moves away from the center of the explosion, its pressure is decreasing, and its speed tends to a constant value. In the filming of a particular explosion, the following data was obtained: t(s): 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 ,0.08, 0.1, 0.12, 0.14, 0.16, 0.18...

what exactly speed point does shock wave will start to appears..

I need to understand how much kinetic energy a particle can absorb which initially is at rest and suddently is exposed to a shock wave. Detonation velocities are very high, on the order of 6000 m/s, but I assume this is the velocity of the shock front and not of the gas molecules themself...

Homework Statement Air, supplied by a reservoir at 450 kPa, flows through a converging-diverging nozzle whose throat area is 12 cm^2. A normal shock stands where A1 = 20 cm^2. (a) Compute the pressure, p2, just downstream of this shock. Still farther downstream, where A3 = 30 cm^2, estimate (b)...

Homework Statement Suppose that a blast wave, which might have been initiated by an atomic bomb explosion, is traveling through air at standard atmospheric conditions with a speed of 60,000 m/s find change in ( pressure , temperature , stagnation pressure , velocity ) produced by the wave...

I am trying to show how the shock wave angle varies as I hold the deflection angle constant and increase the Mach number. I am trying to solve for Beta (shock wave angle) using the theta-beta-mach relation: tan(θ)= 2cot(β) * (M2sin2(β)-1) / (M2(1.4+cos(2β))+2) This seems like it should be...

Homework Statement Anyone know of any experiments I can do show demonstrate a shock wave or supersonics flow ? The Attempt at a Solution Closest thing I can think of is whipping a whip, because the end moves supersonic

【HELP】Equation of temperature increase by shock wave Hi there! What is the equation of the temperature increase when the ideal gas swept by a planar shock wave (Mach number, M)? Thank you!

Hi guys and gals, with respect to SNRs (or anything for that matter) What is the difference between a shock wave and a blast wave? Is it just that a blast wave is a sharp peak in the change in variables, where as a shock wave has a region behind it in which the variables gradually...

So I know what a shock wave is but what's a shock ? is it just the front of the shock wave ?

Suppose you have a 1cm diameter heat source suspended 2m above the ground. How many watts of heat energy does it need to expend to create a shock wave?

I'm trying to wrap my head around shock waves produced by bullets and their properties. In particular I'm interested in what affects the duration of the shock wave in time. Say someone shoots at me, the bullet passes near me, and I hear the shock wave produced by the bullet. If you look...

At freestream M=2 will the red dashed shock exist? I know there is a shock wave on the bottom.

Dear topic mates! I'm an electric engineer and physicist student from Hungary. I looking for description of the spherical shock wave propagation in liquids. I need a formula which give the relationship between the propagation velocity and time. Additionally, I wonder the pressure at the...

An abrupt slowdown in concentrated traffic can be travel as a pulse, termed a shock wave, along the line of cars, either downstream (in the traffic direction) or upstream, or it can be stationary. Figure below shows a uniform spaced line of car moving at speed v = 25.0 m/s toward a uniformly...

Homework Statement A supersonic jet traveling at Mach 3.00 at an altitude of 20,000 meters is directly over a person at a time t=0 as show in figure (see below). (a) At what time will the person encounter the the shock wave? (b) Where will the plane be when the "boom" is finally heard? (Assume...

I've done searching on the topic, and I really don't know where else to turn, so here it goes. I hope somebody can point me in the right direction. I've been working on using a shooting method to solve the steady-state spherically symmetric fluid equations for an accreting plasma. Basically, it...

Homework Statement You look directly overhead and see a plane exactly 1.4·km above the ground, flying faster than the speed of sound. By the time you hear the sonic boom, the plane has traveled a horizontal distance of 2.4·km. (a) Find the angle of the shock wave cone. (b) Find the...

Hello, the question I have to answer is above in the Title...I thought that the V shape of the shock wave gets wider the faster you are going. No? Thanks Zach

When a star explodes, does the shock wave move faster than the local speed of light? If it does, what effects would this have? A little explaining is in order... While the actual speed of light does not change (c in a vacuum) the overall progression of light is greatly slowed down due to...

Hi everybody ! I have used FLUENT to do the following simulation ( it's 1.5 cm, not 1,5) http://upload.tinhco.net/thoai/debai.jpg I set 500 for "Number of Iterations". After running Fluent, I saw CL and Cd have convergenced, then I turn off the interation process. And here are my...

What is the shock wave cone half-angle for a supersonic airplane flying at Mach 2.30? Would you use Mach=1/sin(theta) and then divide by 2 to get the half angle? So 2.30=1/sin(theta)=12.9 degrees

Gravity shock wave... Hi. What if there is gravity shock waves in the univers. I asked a professor once and he said that they can't exist becouse it need infinit energy to create a gravity shock wave. But what if they were created in the big bang so we have gravity shock waves now in the...