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Shocks and energy dissipation in inviscid fluids: a question posed by Lord Rayleigh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 1997

JAMES E. BROADWELL
Affiliation:
8 Muirfield Road, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019, USA

Abstract

Lord Rayleigh argued that after a discontinuity develops in a one-dimensional compression wave in an ideal inviscid fluid some sort of motion must continue. Arguments are given in support of this view and a suggestion is made as to what that motion might be. The relationship of this motion to that proposed by Onsager for incompressible inviscid turbulent flows is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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