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A numerical study of a converging cylindrical shock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

Gary A. Sod
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Abstract

A numerical proceure is introduced to solve the one-dimensional equations of gasdynamics for a cylindrically or spherically symmetric flow. The method consists of a judicious combination of Glimm's method and operator splitting. The method is applied to the problem of a converging cylindrical shock.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1977 Cambridge University Press

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