A computational study of shock speeds in high-performance shock tubes

Shock Waves

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-91

  Petrie Repar, P J ^a   Jacobs, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Numerical dissipation; Shock speeds; Shock tubes flow; Solution adaptive remeshing; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

EID: 19444364526     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001930050101     Document Type: Article

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