Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact
arXiv:0909.3777 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.024501
Abstract
A solid object impacting on liquid creates a liquid jet due to the collapse of the impact cavity. Using visualization experiments with smoke particles and multiscale simulations we show that in addition a high-speed air-jet is pushed out of the cavity. Despite an impact velocity of only 1 m/s, this air-jet attains \emph{supersonic} speeds already when the cavity is slightly larger than 1 mm in diameter. The structure of the air flow resembles closely that of compressible flow through a nozzle -- with the key difference that here the "nozzle" is a \emph{liquid} cavity shrinking rapidly in time.
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