A note on shock flow in a channel
- 1 May 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 4 (5) , 501-504
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112058000628
Abstract
A shock wave is generated by a uniform compressive piston motion and passes into a channel of slowly varying cross-section. A relation in closed form is obtained between shock strength and the area of the channel and is used to discuss converging cylindrical and spherical shocks.Keywords
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