Collisionless Expansion of a Finite Cylindrical Gas Cloud
- 1 June 1966
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 9 (6) , 1252-1254
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1761831
Abstract
The density field for the collisionless expansion of a moving cylindrical gas cloud is calculated. The asymptotic density at the cloud center is independent of the initial cylinder dimensions. In the limit of zero initial velocity, the results agree with those of other authors.Keywords
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