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A note on shock dynamics relative to a moving frame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. B. Whitham
G. B. Whitham
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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Abstract

In this paper it is shown how a previous theory for treating shocks moving into fluid at rest (Whitham 1957, 1959) can be changed to a form suitable for treating propagation into a steady uniform flow. It is necessary only to transform the original theory to a moving frame but the details are not trivial.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , 26 February 1968 , pp. 449 - 453
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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References

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