Explosions in Rarefied Atmospheres

Cylinder explosion in cold, homogeneous and rarefied atmosphere is studied in this paper. For different values of Gamma, the non dimensional radius, Fi is plotted against the non-dimensional time S, and a comparison is made with the results obtained by considering the flow representable by simple snowplow. It is found that the rate of change of Fi with respect to S is more in the case of cylinderical explosion than in the spherical explosion, whereas the variation of T/E with respect to (m/M/Sub0-1) is same in the both cases.