Acceleration waves in a fluid mixture with compressible constituents (Q1103493): Difference between revisions

An analysis is presented for the problem of propagating acceleration waves in a binary, immiscible fluid mixture with compressible constituents. A purely mechanical theory is used to describe the behavior of the mixture, and the local volume fractions (concentrations) of the constituents appear among the independent variables in constitutive equations. These volume fractions are constrained by the condition that they sum to unity. The theory of singular surfaces is used to analyse the propagation of waves. A quartic equation is obtained whose solutions are the permissible wave speeds. Conditions for the growth or decay of the amplitude of the wave are also given.