Spherical blast-wave similarity energy integrals

ID: spherical-blast-wave-similarity-energy-integrals

Use the fields of pressure similarity in a spherical blast wave, with front radius . Since , changing the radial integration variable to gives
Both are time independent for fixed integrable similarity profiles and constant front coordinate . With explosion energy and negligible external energy input or losses, their sum equals . This normalization, together with shock matching and regularity, fixes the dimensionless blast coefficient rather than dimensional analysis alone.

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