Shock-wave reflexion in a relaxing gas

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Abstract
The transient situation which follows when a plane normal shock wave is reflected (from a coplanar wall) into its own relaxation zone is examined theoretically. Approximate inner and outer solutions for the wall-pressure history are employed to establish the timewise variations in the thermodynamic state of the gas adjacent to the wall. Results for chemically relaxing O2 and vibrationally relaxing CO2 are compared with previous numerical solutions based on the method of characteristics, and the agreement is found to be excellent. The approximate technique is simple and requires only a minimum of computing time.