Shockwave Stability in Compressible Fluids
Friday, April 12, 1991 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ethan T. Vishniac Department of Astronomy The University of Texas at Austin The impulsive release of energy into a fluid gives rise to a spreading discontinuity (shock) whose behavior is usually observed to be quite regular. However, it can be shown that if the post-shock density is sufficiently…