Focusing of a shock wave in a rarefied gas. A numerical study

DOI10.1007/S001930050181zbMath0983.76048OpenAlexW2328688626MaRDI QIDQ1978069

Tadeusz Płatkowski, Włodzimierz Waluś, Piotr Kowalczyk

Publication date: 23 April 2002

Published in: Shock Waves (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001930050181

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methodBoltzmann equationMach numbercollision integralkinetic theorysplitting algorithmrarefied gasMonte Carlo quadraturegas flow equationsreflector shapeshock wave focusing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

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