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Note on Whitham's ‘The propagation of weak spherical shocks in stars’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. S. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUniversity of Manchester

Extract

In his paper on ‘The propagation of weak spherical shocks in stars’ Whitham(1) uses as the basis of his non-linear theory the solution of the linear equation

where the suffixes denote partial derivatives and A, B, C are functions of r only. In obtaining his solution he assumes (i) that

where ξ = t – ∫dr/A and fn(ξ) is the nth integral of f with respect to ξ, and (ii) that the function f may be identified with the corresponding function which occurs when gravity is neglected, i.e. when A becomes the constant A0, B = −2/r and C = 0. Having assumed that (2) exists, Whitham is able to show that it will hold asymptotically for Aξ/r ≪ 1 and A′ = O (A/r).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1955

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(1)Whitham, G. B.Commun. pure appl. Math. 6 (1953), 397414.CrossRefGoogle Scholar