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Title: Surrogate Guderley Test Problem Definition

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1045963· OSTI ID:1045963

The surrogate Guderley problem (SGP) is a 'spherical shock tube' (or 'spherical driven implosion') designed to ease the notoriously subtle initialization of the true Guderley problem, while still maintaining a high degree of fidelity. In this problem (similar to the Guderley problem), an infinitely strong shock wave forms and converges in one-dimensional (1D) cylindrical or spherical symmetry through a polytropic gas with arbitrary adiabatic index {gamma}, uniform density {rho}{sub 0}, zero velocity, and negligible pre-shock pressure and specific internal energy (SIE). This shock proceeds to focus on the point or axis of symmetry at r = 0 (resulting in ostensibly infinite pressure, velocity, etc.) and reflect back out into the incoming perturbed gas.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/LANL
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1045963
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-12-22751; TRN: US201215%%364
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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