On converging shock waves

DOI10.1098/rspa.1987.0116zbMath0629.76071OpenAlexW2001679936MaRDI QIDQ3767036

G. B. Whitham, Donald W. Schwendeman

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1987.0116

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsregular reflectionapproximate theoryshock dynamicsconverging cylindrical shocksshock with regular polygonal-shaped cross sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Related Items (9)

The characteristic rule for shocks ⋮ Singularity theory of plane curves and its applications ⋮ Parallel implementation of geometrical shock dynamics for two dimensional converging shock waves ⋮ On the shock dynamics of weak converging shock waves in solid materials ⋮ Instability evolution of a shock-accelerated thin heavy fluid layer in cylindrical geometry ⋮ Shock focusing in a planar convergent geometry: experiment and simulation ⋮ On cylindrically converging shock waves shaped by obstacles ⋮ Thermal radiation from a converging shock implosion ⋮ Convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of light gas layer with perturbed outer surface

This page was built for publication: On converging shock waves