Dalton’s and Amagat’s laws fail in gas mixtures with shock propagation
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- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States); DOE/OSTI
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (United States)
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation)
A shock propagating through a gas mixture leads to pressure, temperature, and density increases across the shock front. Rankine-Hugoniot relations correlating pre- and post-shock quantities describe a calorically perfect gas but deliver a good approximation for real gases, provided the pre-shock conditions are well characterized with a thermodynamic mixing model. Two classic thermodynamic models of gas mixtures are Dalton’s law of partial pressures and Amagat’s law of partial volumes. We measure post-shock temperature and pressure in experiments with nonreacting binary mixtures of sulfur hexafluoride and helium (two dramatically disparate gases) and show that neither model can accurately predict the observed values, on time scales much longer than that of the shock front passage, due to the models’ implicit assumptions about mixture behavior on the molecular level. However, kinetic molecular theory can help account for the discrepancy. Our results provide starting points for future theoretical work, experiments, and code validation.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002913
- OSTI ID:
- 1626027
- Journal Information:
- Science Advances, Journal Name: Science Advances Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 5; ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAASCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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