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A note on shock flow in a channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Roy Gundersen
Roy Gundersen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Abstract

A shock wave is generated by a uniform compressive piston motion and passes into a channel of slowly varying cross-section. A relation in closed form is obtained between shock strength and the area of the channel and is used to discuss converging cylindrical and spherical shocks.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , September 1958 , pp. 501 - 504
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© Cambridge University Press

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