Special case of a traveling wave in one model of a multicomponent medium

The Kuropatenko model for a multicomponent medium whose components are polytropic gases is considered. It is assumed that, as x → ±∞, the multicomponent medium is in a homogeneous state with constant gas-dynamic parameters — velocity, pressure, and temperature. For the traveling wave flows, conditions similar to the Hugoniot conditions are obtained and used to uniquely determine the flow parameters for x → −∞ from the flow parameters x → +∞ and traveling wave velocity. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 39–47, July–August, 2009.