Water Waves Produced by Explosions

Relative Location of Explosions Using Surface Waves

A method of relative location for explosions using Rayleigh waves is developed and tested. It involves cross correlating a wavetrain with a previously recorded signal from the same source region and &?.t&mining a relative "travel-time" from the peak in the -ross correlation trace. Locations are fairly accurate, but do not compare with the precision obtained with body waves and relative travel-t...

Acoustic-gravity Waves Produced by Energy Release

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Numerical study of nonlinear shallow water waves produced by a submerged moving disturbance in viscous flow

Two-dimensional solitary waves generated by a submerged body moving near the critical speed in a shallow water channel are studied numerically. The incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in a curvilinear free-surface-fitted coordinate system are solved by the finite difference method. The present numerical results are compared with the existing experimental data, and with the numerical solution...

Protecting against Vapor Explosions with Water Mist

This paper examines a number of practical questions about the possibility of using water mist to mitigate explosion hazards in some industrial applications. Water mist systems have been installed to replace Halon 1301 in gas compressor modules on Alaska’s North Slope oil fields. The hazard in the compressor modules includes fire in lubrication oil lines for the gas turbines that drive the compr...

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