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Title: Radiography for a Shock-accelerated Liquid Layer

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OSTI ID:899346
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  1. Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Inst. (IRSN), Saint-Paul-les-Durance (France)
  2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Engineering Physics

A flash X-ray radiography technique is employed to measure the volume fraction of a shock accelerated liquid layer in a large vertical shock tube. A series of the fragmented liquid layer X-ray snap-shots are taken at different post-shock times and pieced together to reconstruct the entire volume fraction field of the shock-induced breakup at Mach 2.12. A rapid development of the gas-liquid mixing layer is found as water layer that is initially 12.8 mm thick spreads to 22.5 cm in 3.2 ms.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Organization:
Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Inst. (IRSN), Saint-Paul-les-Durance (France)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-97ER54413
OSTI ID:
899346
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER-54413-F; TRN: US0703265
Resource Relation:
Conference: 25. International Symposium on Shock Waves , Bangalore (India), 17-22 Jul 2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English