On the Self-similar Diffraction of a Weak Shock into an Expansion Wavefront

DOI10.1137/110834135zbMath1376.76019OpenAlexW2091821163MaRDI QIDQ2884618

Allen M. Tesdall, John K. Hunter

Publication date: 30 May 2012

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/be471ec4f00bb38bcf357f68aa6acfb11042cfba

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic solutionhyperbolic conservation lawstwo-dimensional Riemann problemshock diffractionunsteady transonic small disturbance equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Transonic flows (76H05) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55)

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