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Corrugation instability of shock wave in inhomogeneous gas

F.V. Shugaev, A.P. Kalinchenko

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 2001. 56. N 1. P. 71

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A stability criterion has been obtained for an initially planar shock wave propagating along a resting gas with an exponential density distribution. It is shown that the shock wave can also be unstable in a gas with constant adiabatic exponent.

Authors
F.V. Shugaev, A.P. Kalinchenko
Department of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 1, 2001

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