Shock dynamics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Shock dynamics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0834.76003
author: Zhaoyuan Han
author: Xie-Zhen Yin
published in: Fluid Mechanics and its Applications
publication date: 1995-08-06T00:00:00Z
review text: This is a systematically written textbook on shock dynamics which can be useful in teaching this subject to graduate students of any university. In fact, this book is an outcome of lectures delivered by Professor Han in USA, Japan, China etc. The authors present mathematically the dynamic phenomena of shock wave propagation, diffraction, reflection, refraction and interaction. The problems of shock dynamics are divided into two categories: i) shocks propagating into a quiescent gas, and ii) in a moving gas. In part (i), the interactions of moving shocks with a stationary body, and in (ii) with a moving body are discussed, respectively. The book itself is subdivided into three parts. The first four chapters (1-4) are devoted to part (i), the next three chapters (5-7) are devoted to part (ii), and the remaining chapters 8-10 discuss the Mach reflection of shocks in the steady, pseudosteady, and unsteady flows as well as shock refractions at gas interfaces and interactions between shocks. In all the topics, the mathematical equations are derived systematically. In the reviewers opinion, the value and usefulness of this book could be more if some excercises were added to each chapter, so that students could get a better insight into this important topic.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76L05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35L67
zbMATH DE Number: 781871
zbMATH Keywords: propagation
zbMATH Keywords: diffraction
zbMATH Keywords: refraction
zbMATH Keywords: interaction
zbMATH Keywords: Mach reflection
reviewed by: V. M. Soundalgekar
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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