DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING,

REPORT ON SHOCK WAVES IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE,

ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM

FEB 29, 2020

PARTICIPATED FACULTIES: S. RAJASEKAR, Assistant professor &

R. MOHANRAJ, Assistant professor

INTRODUCTION

A “ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON SHOCK WAVES IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING

AND MEDICINE” was organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and
Manufacturing (IIITDM Kancheepuram) Chennai – 600127 & Aeronautics Research and
Development Board DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India at IIITDM Kancheepuram to equip
and empower the educators from academia with substantial skills and competencies that are essential
to inculcate the spirit of Faculties, Industry participants, Students, Research Scholars. So that they
can act as resource person in guiding and motivating young minds particularly from science &
technology stream.
The programme started at 09.00 am on 29th FEB 2020 at Senate hall, Indian Institute of
Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM Kancheepuram) Chennai – 600127.
IIITDM-STEP with the support from Aeronautics Research and Development Board DRDO,
Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India.
OBJECTIVES

The shock waves (SW) are strong perturbations aerodynamics that propagate at supersonic
speed independent of the wave amplitude. Such disturbances occur in steady transonic supersonic
flow, during explosions, lighten strokes, and contact surfaces in laboratory device. Physically the
propagation of SW in any media invariably associated with instantaneous increase in pressure and
temperature behind the shockwave. The capability of SW to generate non-line pressure and
temperature spikes in the medium propagation finds very interesting applications variety of areas
such as medicine, biologic sciences, material processing, manufacturing, a microelectronic industry.
The objective of this symposium is to create platform for teachers and students with Physic
Chemistry/ Engineering/ Biology/ Medicine background to learn, understand, and to get the
doubts about SW cleared from expert scientist from University of Glasgow, UK and Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore.
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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Topic 1: “Shockwaves: Introduction and Application in medicine” by Prof. G.
Jagadeesh, Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru

Topic 2: “Shockwaves & Chemical Kinetics” by Prof. E. Arunan, Department of

Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Topic 3: “Shockwaves in Engineering” by Prof. Konstantinos Kontis, University of

Glasgow United Kingdom

Topic 4: “Making Shockwaves Pay” by Prof. K.P.J. Reddy, Department of

Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Topic 5: “Shockwaves & Impact Simulation” by Dr. M. Raguraman, Department

of Mechanical Engineering IIITDM Kancheepuram.

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Session 1: 29-02-2020, Time-9.00 am-11.00am

SHOCKWAVES: INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION IN MEDICINE

The inauguration of the programme started at 9 am. Prof. Banshidhar Majhi, director of
IIITDM kancheepuram graced the inaugural function of the programme along with the
delegates. He shared his experiences.

The first topic was Shockwaves: Introduction and Application in medicine; Prof. G.
Jagadeesh tackled the session in a different way. He explained the history of shock waves with
simple examples. A nonlinear wave characterized by a sudden jump in pressure, temperature
and density is called shock waves. The shock waves are reacting slower in air, faster in liquid,
fastest in solid. He explained the difference between shock wave and blast wave. Artificial
diamond can have made by using shock wave.

He discussed some of the medical applications by using shock waves like Injecting the
medicine without having the contact of human body and shock waves can indeed provide the
healing touch. Finally, he concluded his session by saying the shock waves can break the rock &
heel the wound.

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Session 2: 29-02-2020, Time-11.15 am to 01.00pm

SHOCKWAVES & CHEMICAL KINETICS

The second session was handled by Prof E. Arunan in the topic of Shockwaves &
chemical kinetics. He started his session by explaining the importance of chemical kinetics in
producing shockwaves. Chemical kinetics is the study of the rates of chemical reactions, the
factors that affect these rates, and the reaction mechanisms by which reactions occur. A reaction
mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical
process occurs.

A mechanism describes in detail exactly what takes place at each stage of an overall
transformation. It also describes each reactive intermediate, activated complex, and transition
state, and which bonds are broken he added. He explained with simple example of thermal rate
constant, normal modes of vibration, reaction coordinate and HCL Elimination from ethyl
chloride.

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Session 3: 29-02-2020, Time-01.45 pm to 03.00pm

SHOCKWAVES IN ENGINEERING

Prof. Konstantious kontis handled the third session of the symposium. He handled the
class with real time applications. Many of his approach and work was to compare theoretical
and experimental studies. He is from Glasgow United Kingdom, so he explained history about
Glasgow university. There are some dreams and imaginations of his studies like Chines rockets
and kits, Leonardo da vinci’s designs, jules verne’s imagination, and thunderbirds. The
explained the same with examples.

Most importantly he explained the wave rider and hypersonic technology. A wave rider
is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock
waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as
compression lift. The wave rider remains a well-studied design for high-speed aircraft in the
Mach 5 and higher hypersonic regime, although no such design has yet entered production.

And he shared air braking propulsion technology. An air brake or, more formally, a
compressed air brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air
pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the vehicle. ...
George Westinghouse first developed air brakes for use in railway service.

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Session 4: 29-02-2020, Time-03.15 pm to 04.45pm

MAKING SHOCKWAVES PAY

Prof K.P.J. Reddy handled the session with his innovative ideas. The most inspired and
encouraged session of the day I can say. He is the inventor of reddy tube that he found from a
simple syringe without a needle. From a simple experiment he found that the syringe is
converted to miniature free piston driven shock with plunger is treated as compression tube with
a piston and the needle separated by a thin diaphragm as shock tube. From this experiment he
found that a syringe with that arrangement can produce 40bar pressure. By using this ideas, he
invented many machines to rectify farmer’s problems.

Super bull-artificial insemination gun – This project is to help the farmer and also to
improve the pregnancy percentage of cow. He found from his research that the conventional
methods of artificial insemination gun having some disadvantages. By using this tube, the
sperms have to travel 25 to 30 cm to reach the destiny. While travelling to this long distance
many biomolecules are dying and this process reduce the pregnancy percentage of cow. To
rectify this problem, he introduced reddy tube in this artificial insemination gun and created
shock waves that make the sperms travel faster than the conventional one and he improved the
percentage of the pregnancy to 90%.

Reddy tube for drip irrigation- He invented this machine to reduce the salt in drip
irrigation by providing shockwaves inside the tubes. Initially formers are used acids to remove
salt content in the drip irrigation tube. This is very dangerous process and also in future this
leads to reduce the quality of the sand. To avoid the above mentioned problem he invented
Reddy tube for drip irrigation.

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Session 5: 29-02-2020, Time-04.45 pm to 05.30pm

Shockwaves & Impact Simulation

Prof. M. Raguraman handled the last session of the day. He explained the importance of
impact force and how the shock waves are generated from the impact force. He shared about a
Ground vehicle subjecting to a blast can sustain vehicle damages and occupant injuries. Direct
blast thermal and force loadings compromise vehicle structural integrity and cause damages.
Computer simulations of vehicle blast wave damages can be obtained by solving the gas
dynamics of the blast wave and the structural dynamics of the vehicle, through a projection of
the wave's impact on the vehicle structure. There are various possible ways that the blast can
cause injuries to the vehicle occupants, such as direct collision with objects instantly accelerated
by the blast pressure and impact by the secondary shock waves transmitted through the platform
structure.

Finally, symposium on “shock waves in science, engineering and medicine” ended with
valediction and certificate distribution.

Submission to Principal

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