Fox And Mcdonald's Introduction To Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Pritchard, Philip J.; Leylegian, John C.; Bhaskaran, Rajesh
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Chapter 7, Problem 20P
The energy released during an explosion, E, is a function of the time after detonation t, the blast radius R at time t, and the ambient air pressure p, and density ρ. Determine, by dimensional analysis, the general form of the expression for E in terms of the other variables.
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