Concentrator of elastic waves

TL;DR

This paper explores the concentration of elastic waves in cone structures to accelerate small bodies to high speeds, demonstrating potential for precise energy focusing using explosive waves.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method of concentrating elastic waves in cone geometries to achieve high-velocity acceleration of small objects.

Findings

Elastic waves can be concentrated in cone structures of specific dimensions.

Explosive waves can accelerate small masses to several kilometers per second.

The proposed method enables precise energy focusing for high-speed impacts.

Abstract

This article is dedicated to an opportunity of concentrating elastic waves in the iron and water cones on the square of the cone vertex of the order of one square centimeter. The square of the base of the cone is equal to one square meter, its height one meter. The calculations assume that the cone hexogen network lying in the cone basis explodes during the time of one microsecond and causes an explosive wave converging to the vertex of the cone. It is shown that this explosive wave can accelerate the body having a mass of three grams to speed five kilometers per second.