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Analysis of vibrational relaxation regions by means of the Rayleigh-line method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

N. H. Johannesen
N. H. Johannesen
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, The University of Manchester
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Abstract

The physics of shock-waves with vibrational relaxation regions is recapitulated, and it is shown that exact methods of analysis can be developed from the classical Rayleigh-line equations by treating the real gas as an ideal gas with heat transfer. By using these methods to analyse experimental records of density distributions in relaxation regions, a large number of local values of the relaxation frequency, rather than a single over-all value, may be obtained from each shock-wave record.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1961 , pp. 25 - 32
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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