Le Mehaute 



in feet. A large volume of experimental data (with small chemical 

 changes in relatively deep water) has been obtained at the Waterways 

 Experimental Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, from which the 

 following empirical relations were deduced: 



u. c. d. 



<ax^= ^8 W 



k* =0.44 W'°!j 



0> W^^ - 0-25 



{27a) 



l.c.d. 



^^* r = 10 W^-^^^ - 



k =0.39 W 



I- max " • -' / 



-0.3 



0.25^7770:3^-7.5 (27b) 



W 



Insufficient Data 



W 



U3 



< - 7.5 



(27c) 



The products "H max^ given above were determined from the empiri- 

 cal data of Fig. 5. Corresponding data for shallow water explosions 

 and other aspects of explosion-generated waves in shallow water are 

 beyond the scope of this presentation, and the reader is referred to 

 LeM^haute[ 1971]. 



20 



16 



12 — 



8 - 



- 5 



-6 



Z /W 



Fig. 5 An empirical scaling fit relating the maximum wave height 

 ^max with distance from explosion r*, yield and depth of 

 explosion (data provided by Waterways Experimental Station) 



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