Effect of surface roughness on nonlinear reflection of weak shock waves

J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 Nov;146(5):EL438. doi: 10.1121/1.5133737.

Abstract

The authors have recently shown that irregular reflections of spark-generated pressure weak shocks from a smooth rigid surface can be studied using an optical interferometer [Karzova, Lechat, Ollivier, Dragna, Yuldashev, Khokhlova, and Blanc-Benon, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 145(1), 26-35 (2019)]. The current study extends these results to the reflection from rough surfaces. A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used to measure pressure waveforms. Simulations are based on the solution of axisymmetric Euler equations. It is shown that roughness causes a decrease of the Mach stem height and the appearance of oscillations in the pressure waveforms. Close to rough surfaces, the pressure was higher compared to the smooth surface.