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  2. Blast wave - Wikipedia

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    A blast wave travels faster than the speed of sound, and the passage of the shock wave usually lasts only a few milliseconds. Like other types of explosions, a blast wave can also cause damage to things and people by the blast wind, debris, and fires. The original explosion will send out fragments that travel very fast.

  3. Shock tube - Wikipedia

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    An idealized shock tube. The plot shows different waves which are formed in the tube once the diaphragm is ruptured. A shock tube is an instrument used to replicate and direct blast waves at a sensor or model in order to simulate explosions and their effects, usually on a smaller scale. Shock tubes (and related impulse facilities such as shock ...

  4. Effects of nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    The team used advanced computer modelling to study how a nuclear blast wave speeds through a standing structure. Their simulated structure featured rooms, windows, doorways, and corridors and allowed them to calculate the speed of the air following the blast wave and determine the best and worst places to be.

  5. High explosive nuclear effects testing - Wikipedia

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    Wave forms, scale and model laws. Jangle HE 5-10 Jangle 25 Aug 1951 - 9 Sept 1951 Nevada Test Site, Area 5 United States 2,560 6 TNT, Pentolite Surface -1 to -3 Base surge and cratering phenomena studies, ground activity differences with pentolite. Dugway Underground Explosion Test Program 5 May 1951 - 13 Nov 1951

  6. Operation Snowball (test) - Wikipedia

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    The test was held at the Suffield Experimental Station in Alberta and was the largest ever man-made, non-accidental explosion in Canada. The test was also the first of its kind using a stacked TNT block hemisphere of such magnitude, a method repeated in six subsequent tests such as Operation Sailor Hat and Prairie Flat .

  7. Nukemap - Wikipedia

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    The initial version was created in February 2012, with major upgrades in July 2013, [2] [3] [4] which enables users to model the explosion of nuclear weapons (contemporary, historical, or of any given arbitrary yield) on virtually any terrain and at virtually any altitude of their choice. [5]

  8. Chapman–Jouguet condition - Wikipedia

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    In more detail (in the ZND model) in the frame of the leading shock of the detonation wave, gases enter at supersonic velocity and are compressed through the shock to a high-density, subsonic flow. This sudden change in pressure initiates the chemical (or sometimes, as in steam explosions, physical) energy release. The energy release re ...

  9. ZND detonation model - Wikipedia

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    The ZND detonation model is a one-dimensional model for the process of detonation of an explosive. It was proposed during World War II independently by Yakov Zeldovich, [1] John von Neumann, [2] and Werner Döring, [3] hence the name. This model admits finite-rate chemical reactions and thus the process of detonation consists of the following ...