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Papers

(The median citation count of Shock Waves is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Measurement of unsteady shock standoff distance around spheres flying at Mach numbers near one	38
Development of a novel shock tube system to study shock-induced motion of a solid body	25
Numerical study of viscous effects on the formation of the Mach reflection in a transition from regular reflection	22
Response to “Comment on ‘A model for the trajectory of the transverse detonation resulting from re-initiation of a diffracted detonation’ by Yuan et al.”	17
Shock detachment from curved wedges by local choking: numerical verification	16
Effect of initial conditions on the inhibition process of H$$_{\textrm{2}}$$–O$$_{\textrm{2}}$$/air detonations using CF$$_{\textrm{3}}$$I, CO$$_{\textrm{2}}$$, and H$$_{\textrm{2}}$$O	15
Characteristic timescales for detonation-based rocket propulsion systems	15
Air-breathing rotating detonation engine supplied with liquid kerosene: propulsive performance and combustion stability	14
Adjoint-based optimisation of detonation initiation by a focusing shock wave	13
Response behavior of the PTFE/Al/W granular composite under different loadings	13
Blast pressures and waveforms of consumer firecrackers	12
Impacts of grid turbulence on the side projection of planar shock waves	12
Single- and two-phase fluid droplet breakup in impulsively generated high-speed flow	11
The modeling of weak shock waves in highly porous powder beds and comments on its relevance to exploding bridgewire (EBW) detonators	10
Evolution of heat transfer at the stagnation point during the detached bow shock establishment	9
Influence of fuel inhomogeneity on detonation wave propagation in a rotating detonation combustor	8
Experimental investigation of the interaction between a water droplet and a shock wave above Mach 4	8
Improved shock-reloading technique for dynamic yield strength measurements	8
The reflection and refraction of a curved shock front sliding over an air–water interface	7
An explosively driven launcher capable of $$10\,\mathrm{km\,s}^{-1}$$ projectile velocities	7
Pressure gain combustion	7
Bidirectional diffraction and re-initiation of irregular structure detonation	7
The effect of increasing rarefaction on the formation of Edney shock interaction patterns: type-I to type-VI	7
A two-scale approach to widen a predictive blast propagation model around a hemicylindrical obstacle	7
Micro-shock tube flow behavior at low Mach number	7

Numerical study on the shock transitions during off-design operation of a dual throat thruster	7
Response of angled and tapered liquid injectors to passing detonation fronts at high operating pressures	7
Reflection of a converging shock over a double curved wedge	6
Experimental and numerical investigation of blast wave impact on a surrogate head model	6
Effects of the dimensionless radius of an annulus on the detonation propagation characteristics in circular and non-circular rotating detonation engines	6
Dual behavior of hydrogen peroxide in gaseous detonations	6
Numerical study of rotating detonation onset in engines	6
Effect of the reactor model on steady detonation modeling	6
Dynamics of motion of a pair of particles in a supersonic flow	6
Combustion properties of a simple and efficient four-step model	6
Propagation of spherical weak blast waves over rough periodic surfaces	5
Prediction model for the risk of auditory and vestibular disfunction caused by a blast wave	5
Critical shock initiation characteristics of TNT with different charging types	5
Prediction model of peak overpressure in two-dimensional field of near-earth air blast shock wave	5
Mass flow rate effect on a rotating detonation combustor with an axial air injection	5
Numerical simulation of shock attenuation with real gas effects and a turbulent boundary layer in the expansion tube	5
In memoriam Prof. Hans Grönig (1931–2021)	5
A new blast wave scaling	5
Experimental and numerical investigation of shock wave-based methane pyrolysis for clean H$$_2$$ production	5
Predicting terrain effects on blast waves: an artificial neural network approach	5
Fully resolved coupled solid-fluid simulations of shock interaction with a layer of deformable aluminum particles	5
An improvement of the AUSMDV$$^{+}$$ scheme on unstructured grids	5
Topologies of flow and combustion in shock–flame interactions	4
Semi-confined blast loading: experiments and simulations of internal detonations	4
Selected topics from the 29th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Siheung, Korea, July 23–28, 2023	4
Flow characterization during the flame acceleration and transition-to-detonation process with solid obstacles and fluid jets	4
Numerical study of direct initiation for one-dimensional Chapman–Jouguet detonations by reactive Riemann problems	4
An Eulerian version of geometrical blast dynamics for 3D simulations	4
Geometric stability of detonation propagation in curved channels	4
Application of the TV-HLL scheme to multidimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic flows	4
Operation characteristics of a disk-type rotating detonation engine	4
Two-dimensional detailed numerical simulation of ammonia/hydrogen/air detonation: hydrogen concentration effects and transverse detonation wave structure	4
Investigating the blast shielding effect of the Beirut silos	3
Three-dimensional full-field simulation of sonic boom emanating from complex geometries over buildings	3
Towards laser-induced fluorescence of nitric oxide in detonation	3
Shock interactions in inviscid air and $$\hbox {CO}_2$$–$$\hbox {N}_2$$ flows in thermochemical non-equilibrium	3
Flow acceleration in an RDRE with gradual chamber constriction	3
Beirut explosion: TNT equivalence from the fireball evolution in the first 170 milliseconds	3
Time-resolved imaging of the cellular structure of methane and natural gas detonations	3
Neuronal function spontaneously recovers in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures after repetitive exposure to occupational-level shock waves	3
Development of a vapor-based method for seeding alkali metals in shock tube facilities	3
Experimental study of pulse detonation engine with liquid ethanol and oxygen mixtures	3
Characterization of a supersonic mixed-compression air intake at high back pressures	3
Detonation and shock-induced breakup characteristics of RP-2 liquid droplets	3
Comment on “A model for the trajectory of the transverse detonation resulting from re-initiation of a diffracted detonation” by Yuan et al.	2
Pulsed combustion of fuel–air mixture in a cavity above water surface: modeling and experiments	2
Numerical analysis of the spark channel expansion in a high-pressure hydrogen–oxygen mixture and in nitrogen	2
Detecting shock arrival in expansion tubes and shock tunnels using high-frequency photodiodes	2
An assessment of the OpenFOAM implementation of the KNP scheme to simulate strong explosions	2
A comparison of explosively driven shock wave radius versus time scaling approaches	2

Drag and rolling moment measurements using accelerometer-based force balance in a shock tunnel	2
Characterization of blast waves using solid and gaseous explosives: application to dynamic buckling of cylindrical shells	2
An experimental and kinetic modeling study of the autoignition of syngas mixtures behind reflected shock waves	2
In memoriam Prof. David Zeitoun (1945–2021)	2
Application of bandwidth-optimized WENO schemes to DNS of shock–turbulence interaction problems	2
In memoriam Prof. Jiming Yang (1959–2021)	2
An experimental study of shock transmission from a detonation tube	2
Experimental investigation of shock–shock interactions with variable inflow Mach number	2
Selected topics from the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Singapore, July 14–19, 2019	2
Normal shock wave coherence relative to other flow events with high and low levels of inlet Mach wave unsteadiness	2
Modeling shock-wave strength near a partially opened diaphragm in a shock tube	2
Real gas effect on ignition in ideal and non-ideal reactors	1
Correction to: Modelling of Mach reflections in internal axisymmetric steady supersonic flow	1
Effects of thermal pretreatment and equivalence ratio on DME/$${\hbox {O}}_2$$/$${\hbox {O}}_3$$ detonations	1
Higher-order moments of the Mott-Smith shock approximation	1
An evaluation of measured and predicted air blast parameters from partially confined blast waves	1
Effects of perturbing the particle volume fraction distribution in blast-driven multiphase instability	1
Mechanisms of shock-induced initiation at micro-scale defects in energetic crystal-binder systems	1
Comparative study on the onset of detonation in methane–oxygen mixtures: initiation in a smooth tube and re-initiation downstreamof a single orifice plate	1
An interface to provide the physical properties of the blast waves from surface-burst TNT explosions	1
The effect of increased throat size on the nozzle-supply flow in reflected shock tunnels	1
Shock ignition of aluminium particle clouds in the low-temperature regime	1
Numerical investigation of the unsteady flow and wave dynamics in a wave rotor combustor	1
Stepped aerospike for enhanced drag reduction using multiple intermediate shocks	1
Predicting detonation cell size of biogas–oxygen mixtures using machine learning models	1
Development of a steady detonation reactor with state-to-state thermochemical modeling	1
Flame propagation and acceleration in narrow channels: sensitivity to facility specific parameters	1
Spatial and spectral structure of explosively generated plasmas in tubes	1
Experimental demonstration on detonation initiation by laser ignition and shock focusing in elliptical cavity	1
Detonation propagation through a diffuse-interface gas layer	1
Heat and momentum losses in $${\text {H}}_{2}$$–$${\text {O}}_{2}$$–$${\text {N}}_{2}/{\textrm{Ar}}$$ detonations: on the existence of set-valued solutions with detailed thermochemistry	1
Study of unsteadiness due to 3-D shock–boundary layer interaction in flow over a square-faced protuberance	1
Analysis of 3D interaction of a blast wave with a finite wall	1
Influence of high strain rate on the transient transmission of laser shock waves	1
Blast wave mitigation with galvanised polyurethane foam in a sandwich cladding	1
Stress-wave balance for measuring the aerodynamic drag force in impulse hypersonic facilities	1
Analysis of shock wave acceleration from normal detonation reflection	1
Pulsed combustion of fuel–air mixture in a cavity under the boat bottom: modeling and experiments	1
Shock wave response of porous carbon fiber–epoxy composite	1
Non-dimensionalized distances and limits for the transition of deflagration to detonation	1
Data-scarce surrogate modeling of shock-induced pore collapse process	1
A new approach for the reconstruction of axisymmetric refractive index fields from background-oriented schlieren measurements	1
Numerical and experimental study of underwash effect and its role in blast-induced traumatic brain injury	1
Secondary waves dynamics and their impact on detonation structure in rotating detonation combustors	1
Nitrogen driver for low-enthalpy testing in free-piston-driven shock tunnels	1
Wall roughness effects on the supersonic flow over a circular cylinder	1
Tall buildings damage in Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion	1
Combustion models for shock-induced cloud ignition of aluminium particles using smoothed particle hydrodynamics	1
Detonation inhibition using retardant weight analysis for halogenated compounds	1
Detonation behaviors in a curved tube with and without an obstacle	1
Numerical and experimental evaluation of shock dividers	1
Selected topics from the 28th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Naples, Italy, June 19–24, 2022	1
Extension of the normal shock wave relations for calorically imperfect gases	1
Parametric study of multiple shock-wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interactions with a Reynolds stress model	1
Numerical optimisation of a micro-wave rotor turbine using a quasi-two-dimensional CFD model and a hybrid algorithm	1
Effects of aluminum content on the energy output characteristics of CL-20-based aluminized explosives in a closed vessel	1
Control of shock wave/boundary layer interactions in a supersonic air intake using a modified backward-facing step	1