Shock Tube

A shock tube has been fabricated for the study of shock-cylinder interactions, capable of withstanding a 20 MPa pressure load. The driven section can be evacuated to produce extremely large Mach number shocks approaching the strengths anticipated in future IFE (Inertial Fusion Energy) devices.
A hydrodynamic issue in ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion) that is suitable numerically and experimentally for study within a shock tube is the removal of energy and protection of the first structural wall in future designs of reactors.
Additionally, water-cooled molten SnLi and PbLi eutectic alloys are being considered as liquid blanket materials for nuclear fusion applications. Thus, it is important to understand the interactions that might occur if these alloys were inadvertently to contact liquid water. Experiments have been conducted with the molten alloys when impacted with a vertical 2.4 m tall column of water at 30 C.

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retrieve PDF A Computational Parameter Study for the 3D Shock-Bubble Interaction, With and Without Modeled Soap Film; John Niederhaus, Jason Oakley, Devesh Ranjan, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, Jeffrey Greenough, July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (15 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1165   An Efficient and High Resolution Solver for the Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; S.P. Wang, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 9-14 December 2001 (submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams)]. (9 pages, 858 kB)

retrieve PDF An Efficient and High Resolution Solver for the Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; S.P. Wang, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 9-14, 2001]. (1 page, 1.1 MB)

retrieve PDF An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Shock-Cylinder Interaction; B. Puranik, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Peterson, R. Bonazza, R. Weaver, M. Gittings, July 1999 [Presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, London, UK, July 1999]. (13 pages, 1.3 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1116   An Investigation of Shock-Cylinder Interaction; J.G. Oakley, B.P. Puranik, M.H. Anderson, R.R. Peterson, R. Bonazza, R.P. Weaver, M.L. Gittings, July 1999 [prepared for the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Imperial College, London, UK, July 18-23, 1999]. (8 pages, 538 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1161   Analysis of Experimental Behavior of Molten SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; P. Meekunnasombat, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, December 2001. (83 pages, 4.6 MB)

retrieve PDF Computational Analysis for Energy Accumulation and Non-Axisymmetric Features in a Shocked Spherical Bubble; J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, November 2006 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa Bay FL, 19-21 November 2006]. (12 pages, 2.4 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1124   Containment of Radioactive Material in the Z, ZX, and X-1 Facilities: Progress Report for the Period January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999; R.R. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, D.A. Haynes, D.L. Henderson, D.C. Kammer, H.Y. Khater, P. McKenna, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, K. Olson, G.A. Rochau, J.F. Santarius, C. Sauer, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, T. Utschig, P.P.H. Wilson, J. Yuan, December 1999. (75 pages, 6.4 MB)

retrieve PDF Direct Contact Heat Exchange Interfacial Phenomena for Liquid Metal Reactors Part II: Void Fraction; Sherif H. Abdulla, Xin Liu, Mark H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, M.L. Corradini, Dae H. Cho, R.J. Page, D. Hurtault, April 2002 [presented at the Tenth International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Arlington VA, 14-18 April 2002]. (1 page, 2.9 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF Experimental Behavior of Molten Salt SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; M.H. Anderson, P. Meekunnasombat, M.L. Corradini, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (20 pages, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-1141   Experimental Behavior of Molten SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; M.H. Anderson, P. Meekunnasombat, M.L. Corradini, October 2000 [presented at the 14th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, October 15-19, 2000, Park City UT]. (7 pages, 479 kB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Hydrodynamics Model for First Wall Protection in IFE Reactors; Riccardo Bonazza, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Phongsan Meekunnasombat, Shaoping Wang, Paul Brooks, April 2002 [presented at the High Average Power Lasers Meeting, General Atomics, La Jolla CA, 4-5 April 2002]. (1 page, 1.8 MB)

UWFDM-1215   Experimental Investigation of a Shock-Accelerated Liquid Layer with Imaging and Pressure Measurement; P. Meekunnasombat, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 351 (2003)]. (8 pages, 1.2 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Investigation of a Shock-Accelerated Liquid Layer with Imaging and Pressure Measurements; P. Meekunnasombat, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson and R. Bonazza, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC]. (1 page, 1.6 MB)

UWFDM-1299   Experimental Investigation of a Strongly Shocked Gas Bubble; D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, May 2005 [published in Physical Review Letters, 94 (2005)].

UWFDM-1379   Experimental Parameter Study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; Bradley J. Motl, December 2008 [Ph.D. thesis]. (152 pages, 27 MB)

UWFDM-1320   Experimental Study for ICF-Related Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities; B. Motl, J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (8 pages, 2.1 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of Shock-Accelerated Liquid Layers for IFE Reactors; M. Anderson, P. Meekunnasombat, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (23 pages, 5.8 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of Shock-Accelerated Liquid Wall Protection for Inertial Fusion Energy Reactors; Phongsan Meekunnasombat, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, March 11, 2003 [FTI Tuesday meeting]. (30 pages, 5.7 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of Shock-Induced Compression and Vortex Generation in the Shock-Bubble Interaction; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, B. Motl, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, November 2006 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa Bay FL, 19-21 November 2006]. (15 pages, 9.2 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of a Shock-Accelerated Water Layer with Imaging and Velocity Measurement; P. Meekunnasombat, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, July 2004 [presented at the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves, 11-16 July 2004, Beijing, China]. (1 page, 11 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of a Strongly Shocked Gas Bubble; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2004 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 57th Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, 21-23 November 2004]. (15 pages, 1.4 MB)

UWFDM-1166   Experimental Study of a Strongly Shocked Gas Interface with Visualized Initial Conditions; M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J.G. Oakley, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 9-14 December 2001 (submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams)]. (8 pages, 1.1 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of a Strongly Shocked Gas Interface with Visualized Initial Conditions; Mark Anderson, Jason Oakley, Bhalchandra Puranik, Riccardo Bonazza, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 9-14, 2001]. (19 pages, 3.8 MB)

retrieve PDF Experimental Study of the Interaction of a Planar Shock with a Free Rising Bubble; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M. Anderson, B. Motl, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (15 pages, 3.4 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF Experimental and Computational Investigations of Shock-Accelerated Gas Bubbles; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, T. Bauer, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, L. Smith, J. Greenough, R. Bonazza, July 2004 [presented at the 9th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Cambridge, UK, 19-23 July 2004]. (38 pages, 4.2 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF Experiments and Computations for Inertial Confinement Fusion-Related Shock-Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities; B. Motl, D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (1 page, 3.9 MB)

retrieve PDF Experiments and Computations for Inertial Confinement Fusion-Related Shock-Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities; B. Motl, J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, July 2007 [presented at the High Energy Density Physics Summer School, 29 July - 3 August 2007, San Diego, CA]. (1 page, 2.8 MB)

UWFDM-1171   Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability I: Preparation of a Membraneless Interface Using the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (32 pages, 637 kB)

UWFDM-1172   Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability II: Nonlinear Evolution of a Shocked Membraneless Single-Mode Sinusoidal Interface; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (34 pages, 685 kB)

retrieve PDF High-Temperature Liquid Metal Compatibility Testing; M.G. Hvasta, B.K. Nollet, M.H. Anderson, T.R. Allen, November 2010 [presented at the 19th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 7-11 November 2010, Las Vegas NV]. (1 page, 3.6 MB)

retrieve PDF ICF-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Shocked Spherical Gas Bubble; J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, November 2004 [presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, APS, 15-19 November 2004, Savannah GA]. (1 page, 1.6 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF IFE-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Spherical Gas Bubble Accelerated by a Planar Shock Wave; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 1.6 MB) [more]

retrieve PDF Imaging of Density Interfaces Accelerated by Strong Shocks; M. Anderson, B. Puranik, J. Oakley, R. Peterson, R. Bonazza, R. Weaver, M. Gittings, July 1999 [Presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, London, UK, July 1999]. (19 pages, 1.5 MB) [more]

UWFDM-1240   Inertial-Fusion-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Spherical Gas Bubble Accelerated by a Planar Shock Wave; J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1160-1164]. (8 pages, 850 kB) [more]

UWFDM-1241   Initial Study of Supercritical Fluid Blowdown; G. Mignot, M. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 574-580]. (7 pages, 1.1 MB)

retrieve PDF Initial Study of Supercritical Fluid Blowdown; G. Mignot, M. Anderson, M. Corradini, September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 745 kB)

retrieve PDF Interaction of a Planar Shock with a Spherical Gas Inhomogeneity - Part I: Experiments; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, November 2005 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, 20-22 November 2005]. (14 pages, 2.2 MB)

retrieve PDF Investigations of the Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities; R. Bonazza, M.H. Anderson, J. Oakley, P. Brooks, P. Meekunnasombat, J. Niederhaus, B. Motl, D. Ranjan, C. Selig, J. White, September 2003 [poster presented at the High Average Power Laser Program Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, 24-25 September 2003]. (1 page, 3.0 MB)

retrieve PDF MHD Effects on Vapor Distribution within Boiling Liquid Metals (experimental work in support of the APEX-EVOLVE reactor concept); M. Anderson, P. Brooks, M. Sawan, I. Sviatoslavsky, M. Corradini, APEX Task IV Members, April 2002 [presented at the 6th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology, San Diego, CA, 7-12 April 2002]. (1 page, 2.1 MB)

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