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Shock-wave reflexion in a relaxing gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Ronald K. Hanson
Ronald K. Hanson
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Abstract

The transient situation which follows when a plane normal shock wave is reflected (from a coplanar wall) into its own relaxation zone is examined theoretically. Approximate inner and outer solutions for the wall-pressure history are employed to establish the timewise variations in the thermodynamic state of the gas adjacent to the wall. Results for chemically relaxing O2 and vibrationally relaxing CO2 are compared with previous numerical solutions based on the method of characteristics, and the agreement is found to be excellent. The approximate technique is simple and requires only a minimum of computing time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , 26 February 1971 , pp. 721 - 746
Copyright
© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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