Shock wave reflection phenomena
Shock wave reflection phenomena
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-71382-1
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
G. Ben-Dor
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G. Ben-Dor
Nothing is more exciting to a scientist than realizing that his/her areas of expertise are developing and that the state-of-the-knowledge yesterday is outdated today.The distinguished philosopher Ernst Mach first reported the phenomenon of shock wave reflection over 125 years ago in 1878. The study of this fascinating phenomenon was then abandoned for a period of about 60 years until Professors John von Neumann and Bleakney initiated its investigation in the early 1940s. Under their supervision, 15 years of intensive research related to various aspects of the reflection of shock waves in pseudosteady flows were carried out. It was during this period that the four basic shock wave reflection configurations, regular, single-Mach, transitional-Mach and double-Mach reflections, were discovered. Then, for a period of about 10 years from the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s, the investigation of the reflection phenomenon of shock waves was kept on a low flame all over the world (eg Australia, Japan, Canada, USA, USSR, etc.) until Professor Tatyana Bazhenova from the USSR, Professor Irvine Israel Glass from Canada, and Professor Roy Henderson from Australia re-initiated the study of this and related phenomena. Under their scientific leadership, numerous findings related to this phenomenon were reported. Probably the most productive research group in the mid-1970s was that led by Professor Irvine Israel Glass in the Institute of Aerospace Studies of the University of Toronto. In 1978, exactly 100 years after Ernst Mach first reported his discoveries on the reflection phenomenon; I published my Ph. D. thesis in which, for the first time, analytical transition criteria between the various shock wave reflection configurations were established. For reasons which for me are yet unknown, the publication of my Ph. D. findings triggered intensive experimental and analytical studies of the shock wave reflection phenomenon over a variety of geometries and properties of the reflecting surface and in a variety of gases. The center of the experimental investigation was shifted from Canada to Japan, in general, and to the Shock Wave Research Center that was led by Professor Kazuyoshi Takayama, in particular. Under his supervision flow visualization techniques reached such