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The structure of normal shock waves in a binary gas mixture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. A. Bird
G. A. Bird
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney
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Abstract

A previous study of normal shock waves through numerical experiments with a simulated gas on a digital computer is extended to binary gas mixtures. The mixture is simulated by two sets of rigid elastic sphere molecules with the appropriate mass and diameter ratios. Velocity profile results for medium strength waves in a mixture of equal parts argon and helium are in qualitative agreement with the continuum calculations of Sherman (1960), but there is no initial acceleration of the argon in mixtures containing a very small initial mole fraction of this gas. The temperature profiles are similar to those for the velocity in that the argon profile lags behind the helium profile. However, when there is a small proportion of heavy gas, the profiles cross-over and the temperature of the heavy gas overshoots the Rankine-Hugoniot downstream value. For very strong shock waves, the overall shock thickness expressed in upstream mean free paths becomes larger, but the profiles are generally similar to those for the medium strength waves.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , 18 March 1968 , pp. 657 - 668
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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