Self-similar solutions to isothermal shock problems

DOI10.1137/16M109973XMaRDI QIDQ4602489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan C. Deschner, Tobias F. Illenseer, Wolfgang J. Duschl

Publication date 11 January 2018

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07879

zbMATH Keywords

shock wavesgas dynamicsdetonation waveslow-dimensional modelsgeneral fluid mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55)

Abstract: We investigate exact solutions for isothermal shock problems in different one-dimensional geometries. These solutions are given as analytical expressions if possible, or are computed using standard numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations. We test the numerical solutions against the analytical expressions to verify the correctness of all numerical algorithms. We use similarity methods to derive a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) yielding exact solutions for power law density distributions as initial conditions. Further, the system of ODEs accounts for implosion problems (IP) as well as explosion problems (EP) by changing the initial or boundary conditions, respectively. Taking genuinely isothermal approximations into account leads to additional insights of EPs in contrast to earlier models. We neglect a constant initial energy contribution but introduce a parameter to adjust the initial mass distribution of the system. Moreover, we show that due to this parameter a constant initial density is not allowed for isothermal EPs. Reasonable restrictions for this parameter are given. Both, the (genuinely) isothermal implosion as well as the explosion problem are solved for the first time.

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