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On the expansion of a gas into vacuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

H. P. Greenspan  and
D. S. Butler
H. P. Greenspan
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D. S. Butler
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Permanent address: Armament Research and Development Establishment, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
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Abstract

A study is made of the flow into vacuum of a gas initially at rest in a state of uniform pressure and density; the analysis is based on a continuum model. Among the topics discussed are the motion of the gas-vacuum interface, the reflexion of a plane front off a rigid wall, the propagation of compressive waves within such expansions, the escape from a sphere and the collapse of a spherical cavity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , May 1962 , pp. 101 - 119
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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