1.13.10 Spherical shell response to a spherical exponentially decaying wave

Product: ABAQUS/Explicit  

Simulating the response of submerged structures of simple geometric shapes to various underwater explosions constitutes an important part of the validation of any fluid-structure interaction code. In this example the ability of ABAQUS/Explicit to model the interaction between a spherical elastic shell and a spherical exponentially decaying wave is illustrated. The results obtained using ABAQUS/Explicit are compared with those obtained independently using the Doubly Asymptotic Approximation (Geers (1978), ABAQUS/USA Version 6.1). This problem has been solved analytically by Huang et al (1971).

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Figure 1.13.10–1 Comparison of the radial velocity at the leading point on the spherical shell obtained with the Doubly Asymptotic Approximation method and with ABAQUS/Explicit.

Figure 1.13.10–2 Comparison of the radial velocity at the trailing point on the spherical shell obtained with the Doubly Asymptotic Approximation method and with ABAQUS/Explicit.