Preliminary experimental and numerical studies of light-core vortex rings
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Nguyen, Thien D.↗
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Jodoin, Vincent
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Evaluation of Historic Nuclear Cloud Measurement for Entrainment Parameter Determination
We evaluated the uncertainties associated with the entrainment parameters computed from nuclear cloud measurements taken during historic weapon testing campaigns. This evaluation found that variations in the way cloud heights and diameters were defined during the analysis of film records result in very large uncertainties in the entrainment parameters, severely limiting the utility of these data. For the measurements of atmospheric conditions at the time of the tests, the main sources of error are associated with the differences in the location and timing of the soundings.
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Design and Testing of the Vortex Ring Facility
This document summarizes the efforts of building an experimental test facility to study the evolution of the cloud following a nuclear detonation above ground level and support the development of numerical models to describe it. The experimental facility allows nonintrusive flow visualization and measurements of buoyant vortex ring formation and evolution using background-oriented Schlieren and particle image velocimetry techniques. In addition, 3D unsteady computational fluid dynamics simulations using unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes and volume-of-fluid numerical methods were performed to support the experimental design as well as to provide insight about the formation and evolution of the vortex ring.
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Experimental Set-up for the Study of Chemical Fractionation and Aerosol Dynamics
Experimental investigations of chemical fractionation/phase partition and aerosol dynamics in high-temperature environment were reviewed and discussed. Particle composition and size distribution are the key data for aerosol dynamics predictive model and simulation. However, there were no particle size distribution available from the previous works. Nucleation, condensation, and coagulation are three key physical processes driving the fractionation or phase partition thereby the aerosol dynamics. A new approach was proposed to experimentally observe fractionation/phase partition and provide data for validating the predictive model for aerosol dynamics in the simulation of bomb debris formation.
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CH↗