Effect of the dynamic pressure on the shock wave structure in a rarefied polyatomic gas
- Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555 (Japan)
- Center for Social Contribution and Collaboration, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555 (Japan)
- Department of Mathematics and Research Center of Applied Mathematics (CIRAM), University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
We study the shock wave structure in a rarefied polyatomic gas based on a simplified model of extended thermodynamics in which the dissipation is due only to the dynamic pressure. In this case the differential system is very simple because it is a variant of Euler system with a new scalar equation for the dynamic pressure [T. Arima, S. Taniguchi, T. Ruggeri, and M. Sugiyama, Phys. Lett. A 376, 2799–2803 (2012)]. It is shown that this theory is able to describe the three types of the shock wave structure observed in experiments: the nearly symmetric shock wave structure (Type A, small Mach number), the asymmetric structure (Type B, moderate Mach number), and the structure composed of thin and thick layers (Type C, large Mach number)
- OSTI ID:
- 22257111
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Fluids (1994), Vol. 26, Issue 1; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-6631
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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