Shock Hydrodynamics

Abstract

The Hugoniot relations, which express conservation of mass, momentum, and energy across a discontinuity, are derived. The relations are applied to a perfect gas for illustration, and graphical methods of solving shock problems are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 1962
Accession Number
ADA395375

Entities

People

  • Mark L. Wilkins

Organizations

  • University of California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Collisions
  • Compression
  • Contractors
  • Discontinuities
  • Equations
  • Equations Of State
  • High Explosives
  • Hugoniot Equations
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Materials
  • Momentum
  • Radiation
  • Shock Waves
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.