EXPLOSIONS (2) Beyond Trinity

Can Taylor's method be applied beyond Trinity? Yes! The interplay between the energy of an explosion and the density of its surrounding medium dictates the dynamics of many explosions, nuclear and conventional, exploding on the ground, in the air, or underwater. In this second episode on the physics of explosions we show how far reaching is Taylor's insight, allowing an understanding of the dynamics of explosions from tiny to astronomical. https://www.numbersnature.org/explosions/2-beyond-trinity Chapters: 0:00 Intro 5:27 Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions 11:05 Underwater Nuclear Explosions 13:26 Underground Nuclear Explosions 14:18 Conventional Explosions 18:33 Laser-induced Explosions Authors: Marc-Antoine Fardin (Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université Paris Cité) Mathieu Hautefeuille (Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Sorbonne Université) Vivek Sharma (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago) Acknowledgements: Anna Part (Atomic Heritage Foundation, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History) Greg Spriggs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) References: Mack (1946) https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00330363.pdf Mack (1947) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005979984 Taylor (1950a) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1950.0049 Taylor (1950b) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1950.0050 O'Connell (1957) https://rs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Teapot_Apple_and_Redwing_Mohawk_Fireball_Asymmetries_and_Jets_from_The_reflection_of_a_blast_wave_by_a_very_intense_explosion/14634294 Schmitt (2016) https://scholar.afit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=etd Nguyen (2017) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424669 Porzel (1957) extracted from https://www.nmt.edu/academics/mecheng/faculty/mhargather/docs/Wei2021.pdf Kingerey (1962) https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0285599.pdf Aouad (2021) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00193-021-01031-9.pdf Hargather (2007) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00193-007-0108-8.pdf Kleine (2010) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjst/e2010-01223-2.pdf Porneala (2006) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2393158 Campanella (2019) https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms7020057 Grun (1991) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2738 Xiang (2017) https://ipo.lukasiewicz.gov.pl/wydawnictwa/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Xiang-1.pdf Trinity and Beyond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond Greg Spriggs and the curation of nuclear atmospheric tests: https://str.llnl.gov/october-2017/spriggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpqGKUG5yY&ab_channel=LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory LLNL Nuclear Test Films Browser: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/llnlfilms/ More on Trinity: Source of the Trinity footage and pictures: Los Alamos National Laboratory https://www.lanl.gov/ https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/trinity-test-1945 https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/julian-e-mack https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/high-speed-photography More nuclear tests: https://www.atomcentral.com/ https://www.sonicbomb.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbzthhT2eRcBpEPc5FPGtQ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research