A comprehensive account of the physical foundations of collision and impact phenomena and their applications in a multitude of engineering disciplines. In-depth explanations are included to reveal the unifying features of collision phenomena in both liquids and solids, and to apply them to disciplines including theoretical and applied mechanics, physics and applied mathematics, materials science, aerospace, mechanical and chemical engineering, and terminal ballistics. Covering a range of examples from drops, jets, and sprays, to seaplanes and ballistic projectiles, and detailing a variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental tools that can be used in developing new models and approaches, this is an ideal resource for students, researchers, and practicing engineers alike.

1 Introduction

2 Selected Basic Flows and Forces

Part I Collision of Liquid Jets and Drops with a Dry Solid Wall

3 Jet Impact onto a Solid Wall

4 Drop Impact onto a Dry Solid Wall

5 Drop Impact onto Dry Surfaces with Complex Morphology

Part II Drop Impacts onto Liquid Surfaces

6 Drop Impacts with Liquid Pools and Layers

Part III Spray Formation and Impact onto Surfaces

7 Drop and Spray Diagnostics

8 Atomization and Spray Formation

9 Spray Impact

Part IV Collisions of Solid Bodies with Liquid

10 Rigid Body Collision with Liquid Surface

11 Particle Impact onto Wetted Wall

Part V Solid–Solid Collisions

12 Particle and Long Bar Impact onto a Rigid Wall

13 Shaped-charge (Munroe) Jets and Projectile Penetration

14 Fragmentat

About the Authors

Alexander L. Yarin is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the Rashi Foundation Fellowship of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1992–5. His awards include the Gutwirth Award from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Hershel Rich Prize, and the Prize for Technological Development for Defense against Terror from the American Technion Society.

Ilia Roisman is based at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany, where he leads the research group Dynamics of Drops and Sprays. He was the recipient of the STAB Research Prize for Fluid Mechanics in 2010.

Cameron Tropea is Head of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics at Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany. He is a member of the Scientific Commission of the Council of Science and Humanities in Germany and has been Editor-in-Chief of Experiments in Fluids since 2002.