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Shock Waves

Shock Waves is a class of nonlinear compression wave in a compressible fluid characterized by an extremely thin region across which flow properties such as pressure, density, temperature, and velocity change almost discontinuously, typically involving a transition from supersonic to subsonic flow and an associated irreversible increase in entropy.

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The Compressibility of Media under Extreme Pressures

F. D. Murnaghan · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1944 · 8.6K citations · Full text

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<i>Linear and Nonlinear Waves</i>

G. B. Whitham, Richard Fowler · Physics Today · 1975 · 8.3K citations

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Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II

Chi‐Wang Shu, Stanley Osher · Journal of Computational Physics · 1989 · 4.9K citations

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Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes

Chi‐Wang Shu, Stanley Osher · Journal of Computational Physics · 1988 · 4.7K citations · Full text

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Physics of shock waves and high-temperature hydrodynamic phenomena

Journal of Molecular Structure · 1970 · 4.2K citations

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    Ronald K. Hanson

    Stanford University, United States

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    Thomas J. Ahrens

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    95 publications · 7K citations

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    C. T. Russell

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

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    B. A. Remington

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States

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    David F. Davidson

    Stanford University, United States

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