History
The classic flow solution—the so-called "similarity solution"—was independently devised by John von Neumann and British mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor during World War II. After the war, the similarity solution was published by three other authors—L. I. Sedov, R. Latter, and J. Lockwood-Taylor—who had discovered it independently.
Since the early theoretical work more than 50 years ago, both theoretical and experimental studies of blast waves have been ongoing.
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