Oblique shock reflection from an axis of symmetry: shock dynamics and relation to the Guderley singularity

DOI10.1017/S0022112001004360zbMath0974.76040MaRDI QIDQ2743729

H. G. Hornung, Donald W. Schwendeman

Publication date: 4 November 2001

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

axis of symmetryself-similar flowcylindrical shock implosiongeneralized hyperbolaGuderley singularityoblique shock reflectionshock shapesWhitham's theory of geometrical shock dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Visualization algorithms applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M27)

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