Explosion/Blast and The Nuke Calculator

[AidenBrooks999]

Normally we use this calculator to find out the power of an explosion (http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html)

But the minimum power insertable is 0,001 MT, which gives a "air-blast radius" minimum of 280 meters, so my question is: how to find the power of an explosion of a radius smaller than 280 meters? (In this case, I have a blast radius of 163.65 meters)

 

[AidenBrooks999]

Bumped.

 

[AidenBrooks999]

Re-Bumped.

 

[ChaosTheory123]

Doubling the blast radius requires 8 times the energy

1 megaton has half the radius of an 8 megaton explosion as an example

Only talking "air blast radius" though

 

[AidenBrooks999]

Doubling the blast radius requires 8 times the energy
1 megaton has half the radius of an 8 megaton explosion as an example

Only talking "air blast radius" though

That method gives me 200 tons of TNT

 

[AidenBrooks999]

Le Bump.

 

[Antoniofer]

I calculated the radious of explotions that are less than 0.001 Megatons... but I haven't it right now

 

[Basilisk1995]

You can use this formula for any distance.

 

[Antoniofer]

Here:

36.452 m to 63.731 m= Large Building

63.731 m to 131.488 m= City Block level

131.488 m to 280 m= Multi City Block level

 

[AidenBrooks999]

So Multi-City Block Level for the explosion

 

[AidenBrooks999]

Thanks

 

[Antoniofer]

you're welcome, the only problem is that there's no way to known the exact energy

 

[AidenBrooks999]

@Basilisk1995 Can you plis explain me this?

where C is a dimensionless constant that is a function of the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to the specific heat of air at constant volume. The value of C is also affected by radiative losses, but for air, values of C of 1.00-1.10 generally give reasonable results.

 

[AidenBrooks999]

And how I should scale this kind of explosions?