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Shock waves at a slow-fast gas interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

A. M. Abd-El-Fattah  and
L. F. Henderson
A. M. Abd-El-Fattah
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
L. F. Henderson
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Abstract

This paper describes the results of our experiments with shock waves refracting at a CO2/CH4 interface. The refraction is slow-fast because the speed of sound in the incident gas (CO2) is less than that in the transmitting gas (CH4). We found three phenomena which apparently have not been reported before and which all have free precursor shocks in their wave systems; schlieren photographs of them are presented. As a result of the present and earlier work, we can assert that there exist at least four different free precursor refractions. Theoretical studies suggest that the slow-fast phenomena can be conveniently classified into three groups characterized by different ranges of values of the inverse strength ζi of the incident shock i. The classification may be an exhaustive list of the phenomena, at least when the gases are nearly perfect, but we cannot be sure. We present experimental data on all the phenomena in each group, including data on the transition conditions from one wave system to another both within and across the groups.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , 14 November 1978 , pp. 79 - 95
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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