V. K. Baranov, A. B. Georgievskaya, D. E. Guk, D. N. Zamyslov, S. A. Makarov, E. E. Meshkov, S. N. Stepushkin, “A compact laboratory device for accelerating thin strikers”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Volume 42, Issue 16,Pages <nobr>1

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A compact laboratory device for accelerating thin strikers

V. K. Baranov^a, A. B. Georgievskaya^a, D. E. Guk^b, D. N. Zamyslov^a, S. A. Makarov^b, E. E. Meshkov^b, S. N. Stepushkin^a

^a Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region
^b Sarov Physics Institute

Abstract: We describe a method for accelerating a thin ($\sim$1 mm thick) striker with a diameter of 35 mm in a shock tube channel up to velocities above to $\sim$275 m/s under the pressure of detonation products of acetylene–oxygen fuel mixture. Impact of this striker on a $\sim$1-cm-thick water layer generates a nonstationary decaying shock wave (Taylor wave) with amplitude of $\sim$0.2 GPa on escape from the free surface.

Received: 30.03.2016