Shock dynamics in non-uniform media

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002876zbMath0555.76051MaRDI QIDQ3220231

Christopher J. Catherasoo, B. Sturtevant

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

non-uniform medium'slow-fast' interfaceanalogy to Snell's lawhyperbolic equations with source termsrefraction of a plane shock wave at a free plane gaseous interfaceshock dynamics in two dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

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