Generalized hydrodynamic theory of shock waves: Mach-number dependence of inverse shock width for nitrogen gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4294-4297

  Al Ghoul, Mazen ^a   Eu, Byung Chan ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NITROGEN; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

INVERSE SHOCK WIDTH; MACH NUMBER;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0035820941     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4294     Document Type: Article

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