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Evaluation Techniques and Properties of an Exact Solution to a Subsonic Free Surface Jet Flow
Computational techniques for the evaluation of steady plane subsonic flows represented by Chaplygin series in the hodograph plane are presented. These techniques are utilized to examine the properties of the free surface wall jet solution. This solution is a prototype for the shaped charge jet, a problem which is particularly difficult to compute properly using general purpose finite element or finite difference continuum mechanics codes. The shaped charge jet is a classic validation problem for models involving high explosives and material strength. Therefore, the problem studied in this report represents a useful verification problem associated with shaped charge jet modeling.