SOME RELATIVISTIC GENERALIZATIONS OF GAS DYNAMICS.
Abstract
The thermodynamic notions which have been successful in the synthesis of classical gas dynamics can be generalized to apply in Minkowski space, possibly in more ways than one. A straightforward generalization of the first and second laws is used to suggest a number of relativistic generalizations of gas dynamics. The theories discussed are all covariant and they all reduce to classical gas dynamics asymptotically when the four-velocity approaches (1, 0, 0, 0) uniformly, but they differ in their description of second order effects. In the absence of definitive measurements of relativistic effects, it is suggested that the choice of a relativistic theory may be largely a matter of taste. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0661205
Entities
People
- Frederic E. Bisshopp
Organizations
- Brown University