Continuum description of rarefied gas dynamics. III. The structures of shock waves

Xinzhong Chen; Edward A Spiegel; Hongling Rao

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036304

Continuum description of rarefied gas dynamics. III. The structures of shock waves

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Mar;65(3 Pt 2B):036304. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036304. Epub 2002 Feb 12.

Authors

Xinzhong Chen¹, Edward A Spiegel, Hongling Rao

Affiliation

¹ Astronomy Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.

PMID: 11909241
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.036304

Abstract

We use the one-dimensional steady version of the equations derived in paper I to compute the structure of shock waves and find good agreement with experiment.