Fluid Dynamics: How Water Explodes

Susan Davis Allen

doi:10.1038/nphys3912

Fluid Dynamics: How Water Explodes

Susan Davis Allen

College of Engineering

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Abstract

Micro-explosions triggered by the absorption of X-ray laser light in drops and jets of water result in shock waves and in rapid heating and expansion of the liquid — as now revealed in state-of-the-art experiments.

Original language	American English
Journal	Nature Physics
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3912
State	Published - Oct 4 2016

Keywords

fluid dynamics
laser material processing
ultrafast photonics
X-rays

Disciplines

Fluid Dynamics

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