Focusing of weak shock waves and the von Neumann paradox of oblique shock reflection

DOI10.1063/1.868246zbMath0831.76039MaRDI QIDQ4841878

Esteban G. Tabak, Rodolfo Ruben Rosales

Publication date: 22 February 1996

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108868

zbMATH Keywords

diffraction; regular reflection; transition; irregular reflection; localized singularity; triple shock paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76L05: Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics

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