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A shock wave is the final stage of a nonlinearly steepening wave that has reached a balance between steepening and energy dissipation resulting in a discontinuity.

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How would high-explosives interact with the shockwaves around a hypersonic weapon?

This is a proxy for a question from a friend. I'm an aerospace engineer so I have some domain-knowledge on compressible flow but less about missile design and even less about explosives. I also real …
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