NUMERICALLY GENERATED FLOW VISUALIZATION FOR DIRECT COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS IN NON-IDEAL AIRBLAST STUDIES

DNA PRESENTLY SPONSORS EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NON-DEAL AIR BLAST AT ERNST MACH INSTITUTE (EMI), AND MODELING EFFORTS AT NSWC. PRESENTLY, THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS, IN THE FORM OF MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER, BEING BOTH FUNCTIONS OF TEMPERATURE AND CONCENTRATION, CANNOT BE REDUCED FOR COMPARISON WITH THE COMPUTER RESULTS. IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE NECESSARY CAPABILITIES BE DEVELOPED TO FACILITATE THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE COMPUTED RESULTS OF THE NONIDEAL AIRBLAST MODELING IN THE FORM OF NUMERICAL MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROGRAMS FOR DIRECT COMPARISON WITH THE EXPERIMENTS. THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS NOVEL CONCEPT WILL BE EVALUATED DURING PHASE I. THE NECESSARY SOFTWARE MODULES WILL BE DEVELOPED AND INSTALLED AT EMI & NSWC IN PHASE II OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM.