In fluid dynamics, a blast wave is the increased pressure and flow resulting from the deposition of a large amount of energy in a small, very localised...
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Blast injuries are divided into four classes: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. Primary injuries are caused by blast overpressure waves,...
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Wave Blaster may refer to: Yamaha WaveBlaster, a personal watercraft produced from 1993 to 1996 Creative Wave Blaster, a companion MIDI-daughterboard...
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Neumann–Sedov blast wave (or sometimes referred to as Sedov–von Neumann–Taylor blast wave) refers to a blast wave induced by a strong explosion. The blast wave was...
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characteristic blast wave, often referred to as the leading shock wave. Physically, this wave is characterized as a non-linear, discontinuous wave front that...
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Effects of nuclear explosions (section Blast damage)
atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories: the blast and shock wave: 50% of total energy thermal radiation: 35% of total energy ionizing...
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Non-rocket spacelaunch (redirect from Blast wave accelerator)
jet propulsion. Other physics come into play at higher velocities. A blast wave accelerator is similar to a space gun but it differs in that rings of...
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Tunguska event (redirect from Tunguska blast)
explosion registered at seismic stations across Eurasia, and air waves from the blast were detected in Germany, Denmark, Croatia, and the United Kingdom...
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Explosives safety (section Blast wave phenomena)
The sudden and intense pressure disturbance is termed the “blast wave.” The blast wave is characterized by an almost instantaneous rise from ambient...
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Bunker (section Blast protection)
below-ground bathroom with fiber-reinforced plastic shells. Bunkers deflect the blast wave from nearby explosions to prevent ear and internal injuries to people...
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features exhibiting blast-protective properties that have potential to be used for protection from blasts. Blast shelters deflect the blast wave from nearby explosions...
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Bomb suit (redirect from Blast suit)
exploded device. It also stops or greatly decreases the pressure of the blast wave being transmitted to the person inside of the suit. Most bomb suits, such...
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explosion site. The blast wave circled the globe three times, with the first one taking 36 hours and 27 minutes. A seismic wave in the Earth's crust...
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Duck and cover (section Blast effects)
ballistic window glass lacerations when the slower moving blast wave arrived. However, in higher blast pressure zones, where partial-to-total building collapse...
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creates a massive blast wave. The blast wave can destroy reinforced buildings, equipment, and kill or injure people. The blast wave's antipersonnel effect...
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Bomb (redirect from Bomb blast)
employ a combination of negative shock wave effects and extreme temperature to incinerate objects within the blast radius. Fragmentation is produced by...
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respectively. The blast wave, however, was likely assumed to grow out as the surface area of the approximately hemispheric near surface burst blast wave of the Trinity...
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controlled wave steepening helps simulate blast wave behavior for aerospace and defense research. The mathematical modeling of such nonlinear wave behavior...
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Kursk submarine disaster (section Initial blast damage)
(19 in) air conditioning duct. The bulkhead should have arrested the blast wave, but in keeping with common Russian submarine practice, the pressurised...
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The Wave Blaster was an add-on MIDI-synthesizer for Creative Sound Blaster 16 and Sound Blaster AWE32 family of PC soundcards. It was a sample-based synthesis...
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Shock tube (category Shock waves)
detonator 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...
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The energy of the blast wave was measured by a large number of sensors using a variety of physical principles. The piezoelectric blast gauges were thrown...
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Anti-personnel mine (section Blast mines)
force. When a person steps on a blast mine and activates it, the mine's main charge detonates, creating a blast shock wave consisting of hot gases travelling...
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of high explosives. The ship was completely blown apart and a powerful blast wave radiated away from the explosion initially at more than 1,000 metres (3...
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destroyed. The porous sandstone that makes up the island allowed the blast wave to escape so only the southern tip of the island was destroyed, but there...
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Neutron bomb (redirect from Enhanced radiation reduced blast)
neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The neutron release generated by a nuclear...
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light. This blast wave gyrates electrons in ambient magnetic fields and generates synchrotron emission, revealing the radius of the blast wave at the location...
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weapons enhance the blast effect by utilizing the surrounding atmosphere in their explosive reactions. Blast: A strong shock wave is provided by the detonation...
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expertise to military problems such as the propagation of blast waves, studying both waves in air and underwater explosions. Taylor was sent to the United...
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which detonates at waist level, increasing the blast radius and harm inflicted by detonation, shock wave, and flying splinters. A relatively recent example...
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