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dc.contributor.advisorOran, Elaine Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Rubbelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-01T06:39:59Z
dc.date.available2019-02-01T06:39:59Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractThe increased use of explosives in military conflicts has been linked to an increase in the number of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Assessing the effectiveness of personal protective equipment to mitigate TBIs requires both the ability to replicate the pressure signatures caused by blast waves and an understanding of the interaction between blast waves and human bodies. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was used to understand the effect of varying different shock tube design parameters and to propose guidelines for selecting shock tube designs to accurately replicate blast wave pressure signatures representative of free-field explosive events. Additionally, a CFD model was developed to represent a shock tube built to mimic the primary overpressure magnitude and impulse loading on the human head surface as a result of free-field explosive events. This model was used to aid in the understanding of flow within the shock tube, characterize the applied pressure loading to a bare head form, augment experimental findings to fully understand the influence of headborne systems on pressure applied to the human head, and support the design of optimized laboratory test methodologies to represent a broad range of free-field blast events.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/snhg-0xii
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21646
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComputational physicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBiomechanicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBlast Waveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHead Formen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHelmeten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIEDen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOverpressureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledShock Tubeen_US
dc.titlehttps://aero.umd.edu/graduate/graduate-student-formsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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