46th Annual Conference

Calculating Shock Wave Overpressure from High-Speed Video (Room Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

27 Jan 20
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Session 3 - Research 1

Speaker(s): Kelly Williams

The velocity of a shock wave can be calculated by dividing the change in position of the shock front between two images by the elapsed time between the images. The veloicity of the shock wave can be used to calculate other physical parameters of the blast wave such as overpressure.