Evidence of wave front folding of sonic booms by a laboratory-scale deterministic experiment of shock waves in a heterogeneous medium

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-71

  Ganjehi, Lili ^a   Marchiano, Régis ^a   Coulouvrat, François ^a   Thomas, Jean Louis ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; EXPERIMENTS; WAVEFRONTS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); GROUND LEVELS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HIGHER HARMONICS; INCIDENT WAVES; LINEAR PROPAGATIONS; MAGNITUDE ORDER; NON-LINEARITIES; OFF-AXIS; PARABOLIC MODEL; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATIONS; PEAK PRESSURES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER (PBL); QUALITATIVE AGREEMENT; RISE TIME; SHOCK WAVE INTERACTIONS; SONIC BOOM PROPAGATION; SONIC BOOMS; TURBULENT MEDIUM; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE FRONTS;

SHOCK WAVES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHOCK WAVE; SIMULATION; SONIC BOOM; SOUND; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 47649118527     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2832621     Document Type: Article

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