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Interaction of a planar shock with a blast wave 2 1 1 1 Jiming Yang , Mingyu Sun , Toshihiro Ogawa , Hidenori Ojima , Kazuyoshi Takayama1, and Joseph Falcovitz3 1 Shock Wave Research Center,Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan 2 Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China 3 Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Abstract. The interaction between a planar shock wave and a blast wave was in- vestigated experimentally and numerically. Three types of interaction, namely a blast wave starts ahead, at, and behind a planar shock were considered. It was found that the flow configuration changes dramatically during different stages of the interaction. The comparison between the experiments and numerical simulation is helpful not only for better understanding of the phenomena, but also for improving the the numerical modeling of the explosive charge. 1 Introduction A class of interesting shock wave phenomena, generated through the interaction of a planar shock wave and a spherical blas wave, is considered both experi- mentally and numerically. When a blas wave or explosion starts ahead of the shock wave, the in eraction is tha tof a moving shock wave sweeping over a blas wave, during which various wave configurations can be observed because the process covers the entire range of intersection angles between the two wave fronts. Another type of interaction is the case where the explosion of the blas starts behind the planar shock wave, in which case only a par tof the blas wave fron tcan catch up with the planar shock. The intermediate case is a poin tsource explosion tha tstarts exactly a he planar shock front. Such