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Boundary shock waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

E. Dale Martin
E. Dale Martin
Affiliation:
Ames Research Center, NASA, Moffett Field, California
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Abstract

The possible occurrence of a viscous region near a surface from which there is rapid efflux of gas, accompanied by large heat transfer, is postulated and investigated theoretically. Such a viscous region, denoted as a boundary shock wave, may occur in the case of a large high-speed meteor entering the earth's atmosphere, when a very high rate of vaporization induces translational non-equilibrium. The conditions across a boundary shock wave and its structure are calculated from the appropriate macroscopic equations reduced to closed-form expressions under the restrictions of a perfect gas, flowing at constant total enthalpy.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 8 May 1967 , pp. 337 - 352
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© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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