Abstract
We investigated the explosion of a cylindrical charge, which lies on a rigid surface or is positioned at some height above it. The explosion is modeled by the jump between the background and the region occupied by gas at a high pressure, density, and temperature. In an analogous formulation, the explosion from the Tunguska meteorite impact [1–4] was modeled by spherical and cylindrical explosive waves which consider the gravitational back pressure. Explosions from charges with nontraditional shapes have been studied [5–8]. Reflections of an explosive wave from a point charge from a rigid surface have been examined [9–10]. A more complete review of investigations on the spatial effects of forming propagating explosive waves can be found in [11].
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Moscow. Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 131–134, November–December, 1991
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Gerasimov, B.P., Levin, V.A., Rozhdestvenskaya, T.I. et al. Explosion of a cylindrical charge above a rigid surface. Combust Explos Shock Waves 27, 770–773 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00814526
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