Another Real World Science question...
Jun. 8th, 2009 02:29 pm... I'm trying to find information -- preferably text with an accompanying diagram/image mapping things out -- on how the propagation of a blast wave works in the presence of an object such as a human being caught in it. Naive assumption on my part would imply that what you'd get is a high-pressure ridge on the portion facing the blast, with a lower pressure area on the other side, but that it's possible another, high-pressure shock could result ON the opposite side due to the shockwave pressure being delayed and channeled around the object, to meet in opposition on the other side and producing a secondary shock-ridge.
I've found papers on various aspects of blast physics and so on, but none that give me the overall look at what happens around an object like that caught in a blast.
(like the prior ones, these are questions springing from proposal research I'm doing)
I've found papers on various aspects of blast physics and so on, but none that give me the overall look at what happens around an object like that caught in a blast.
(like the prior ones, these are questions springing from proposal research I'm doing)