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.
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A link to the datasets we used is available at the end of this page, together with the references associated with this video.
Slides
A2_SLIDES_compressed.pdfDownload our slideshow for your lectures / presentations.
Films
Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port.mp4Another angle on the Beirut harbor explosions this one from the sea.mp4GIFs
Images
Plots
References
Porzel (1957) extracted from Wei et al.
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
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)