Characteristics and application of laser-generated acoustic shock waves in air

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-340

  Qin, Qin ^a   Attenborough, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic shocks; Hydrodynamic non linearity; Laser generated; Rough surface effects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC SPARKS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER PULSES; MICROPHONES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HYDRODYNAMIC NON-LINEARITY; LASER-GENERATED ACOUSTIC SHOCKS WAVES; ROUGH SURFACE EFFECTS;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0742285815     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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