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Investigation on charge parameters of underwater contact explosion based on axisymmetric SPH method

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This paper investigates the effects of charge parameters of the underwater contact explosion based on the axisymmetric smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The dynamic boundary particle is proposed to improve the pressure fluctuation and numerical accuracy near the symmetric axis. An in-depth study is carried out over the influence of charge shapes and detonation modes on the near-field loads in terms of the peak pressure and impulse of shock waves. For different charge shapes, the cylindrical charge with different length-diameter ratios may cause strong directivity of peak pressure and impulse in the near field. Compared with spherical charge, the peak pressure of cylindrical charge may be either weakened or enhanced in different directions. Within a certain range, the greater the length-diameter ratio is, the more obvious the effect will be. The weakened ratio near the detonation end may reach 25% approximately, while the enhanced ratio may reach around 20% in the opposite direction. However, the impulse in different directions seems to be uniform. For different detonation modes, compared with point-source explosion, the peak pressure of plane-source explosion is enhanced by about 5%. Besides, the impulse of plane-source explosion is enhanced by around 5% near the detonation end, but close to those of the point-source explosion in other directions. Based on the material constitutive relation in the axisymmetric coordinates, a simple case of underwater contact explosion is simulated to verify the above conclusions, showing that the charge parameters of underwater contact explosion should not be ignored.

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  1. College of Shipbuilding Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, P. R. China

    Fu-ren Ming  (明付仁), Peng-nan Sun  (孙鹏楠) & A.-man Zhang  (张阿漫)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51379039) and the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (No. 51222904)

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Ming, Fr., Sun, Pn. & Zhang, Am. Investigation on charge parameters of underwater contact explosion based on axisymmetric SPH method. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 35, 453–468 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-014-1804-6

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