Research on shock wave mitigation in channels has been a topic of much attention in the shock wave community. One approach to attenuate an incident shock wave is to use obstacles of various geometries arranged in different patterns. This work is inspired by the study from Chaudhuri et al. (2013), in which cylinders, squares and triangles placed in staggered and non-staggered subsequent columns ...

Background-We tested the hypothesis that the shape of the shock waveform affects not only

Converting a binary image to a skeleton or medial axis form is often used to preserve the shape details efficiently. The medial axis is converted to a shock graph which has structure like a tree. Shock graphs are derived from the skeleton and have emerged as powerful 2-D shape representation. A skeleton has number of branches. A branch is a connected set of points between an end point and a joi...

The behaviour of converging spherical shock waves is considered using Whitham’s theory of geometrical shock dynamics. An analysis of converging shocks whose initial shape takes the form of regular polyhedra is presented. The analysis of this problem is motivated by the earlier work on converging cylindrical shocks discussed in Schwendeman & Whitham (1987). In that paper, exact solutions were re...

Shock tube experiments for the study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability are presented. The shock tube is vertical with a square inner cross section. Two new techniques are used to prepare the interface and to determine its initial shape, prior to shock-acceleration. The interface is prepared by retracting a sinusoidally shaped plate initially separating CO2 from air at atmospheric pressure. T...

The bone graph (Macrini et al., in press, 2008) [23,25] is a graph-based medial shape abstraction that offers improved stability over shock graphs and other skeleton-based descriptions that retain unstable ligature structure. Unlike the shock graph, the bone graph’s edges are attributed, allowing a richer specification of relational information, including how and where two medial parts meet. In...

Adiabatic and isothermal propagations of spherical blast wave produced due to a nuclear explosion have been studied using the Energy hypothesis of Thomas, in the nonuniform atmosphere of the earth. The explosion is considered at different heights. Entropy production is also calculated along with the strength and velocity of the shock. In both the cases; for adiabatic and isothermal flows, it ha...