Shock Waves Asymmetry in a Symmetric Nozzle

Transonic Evaporation Waves in a Spherically Symmetric Nozzle

This paper studies the liquid to vapor phase transition in a cone shaped nozzle. Using the geometric method presented in [32, 34], we further develop results on subsonic and supersonic evaporation waves in [14] to transonic waves. It is known that transonic waves do not exist if restricted solely to the slow system on the slow manifolds [14]. Thus we consider the existence of transonic waves th...

Instability of shock-induced nozzle flow separation

We investigate experimentally the causes of jet plume instability and enhanced mixing observed in the exhaust of shock-containing convergent-divergent nozzles. Key features of the internal flow are the separation shock, separation shear layers, and pattern of alternating expansion and compression waves downstream of the shock. We focus on two possible reasons for this instability—the motion of ...

Shock Waves in Liquid

Asbtract The structure of shock waves in liquids containing gas bubbles is investigated theoretically. The mechanisms taken into account are the steepening of compression waves in the mixture by convection and the effects due to the motion of the bubbles with respect to the surrounding fluid. This relative motion, radial and translational, gives rise to dissipation and to dispersion caused by t...

Shock Waves in Medicine

Shock Waves

Shock wave theory was first studied for gas dynamics, for which shocks appear as compression waves. A shock wave is characterized as a sharp transition, even discontinuity in the flow. In fact, shocks appear in many different physical situation and represent strong nonlinearity of the physical processes. Important progresses have been made on shock wave theory in recent years. We will survey th...