[HTML][HTML] A review on Shock tubes with multitudinous applications

GS Balan, SA Raj - International journal of impact engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Shock tubes simulate jet aerodynamics and investigate the behavior of high-temperature
materials, which has significantly evolved since 1899. This article examines the changes in …

The impact of recent advances in laboratory astrophysics on our understanding of the cosmos

DW Savin, NS Brickhouse, JJ Cowan… - Reports on Progress …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
An emerging theme in modern astrophysics is the connection between astronomical
observations and the underlying physical phenomena that drive our cosmos. Both the …

CRASH: A block-adaptive-mesh code for radiative shock hydrodynamics—implementation and verification

B Van der Holst, G Tóth, IV Sokolov… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics (CRASH) code, a block-
adaptive-mesh code for multi-material radiation hydrodynamics. The implementation solves …

Radiative effects in radiative shocks in shock tubes

RP Drake, FW Doss, RG McClarren, ML Adams… - High Energy Density …, 2011 - Elsevier
Using modern high-energy-density facilities it is straightforward to produce radiative shock
waves in which the transfer of energy by radiation controls the hydrodynamic structure of the …

Measurement of radiative shock properties by x-ray Thomson scattering

AJ Visco, RP Drake, SH Glenzer, T Döppner… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
X-ray Thomson scattering has enabled us to measure the temperature of a shocked layer,
produced in the laboratory, that is relevant to shocks emerging from supernovas. High …

Counterpropagating radiative shock experiments on the orion laser

F Suzuki-Vidal, T Clayson, C Stehlé, GF Swadling… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We present new experiments to study the formation of radiative shocks and the interaction
between two counterpropagating radiative shocks. The experiments are performed at the …

Spike morphology in blast-wave-driven instability experiments

CC Kuranz, RP Drake, MJ Grosskopf, B Fryxell… - Physics of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The laboratory experiments described in the present paper observe the blast-wave-driven
Rayleigh–Taylor instability with three-dimensional (3D) initial conditions. About 5 kJ of …

Supersonic-to-subsonic transition of a radiation wave observed at the LMJ

C Courtois, C Robert, D Bretheau, J Fariaut… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We detail results of an experiment performed at the Laser Mégajoule facility aimed at
studying transition from supersonic radiation front to shock front in a low density CHOBr …

Theory of radiative shocks in the mixed, optically thick-thin case

RG McClarren, RP Drake, JE Morel, JP Holloway - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A theory of radiating shocks that are optically thick in the downstream (postshock) state and
optically thin in the upstream (preshock) state, which are called thick-thin shocks, is …

New probing techniques of radiative shocks

C Stehlé, M Kozlová, J Larour, J Nejdl… - Optics …, 2012 - Elsevier
Radiative shock waves propagating in xenon at a low pressure have been produced using
60joules of iodine laser (λ= 1.315 μm) at PALS center. The shocks have been probed by …