The reflection of an ionized shock wave |
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Authors: | Fumioki Asakura Andrea Corli |
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Institution: | 1.Center of Physics and Mathematics,Osaka Electro-Communication University,Neyagawa,Japan;2.Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,University of Ferrara,Ferrara,Italy |
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Abstract: | In a previous paper, we studied the thermodynamic and kinetic theory for an ionized gas, in one space dimension; in this paper, we provide an application of those results to the reflection of a shock wave in an electromagnetic shock tube. Under some reasonable limitations, which fully agree with experimental data, we prove that both the incident and the reflected shock waves satisfy the Lax entropy conditions; this result holds even outside genuinely nonlinear regions, which are present in the model. We show that the temperature increases in a significant way behind the incident shock front but the degree of ionization does not undergo a similar growth. On the contrary, the degree of ionization increases substantially behind the reflected shock front. We explain these phenomena by means of the concavity of the Hugoniot loci. Therefore, our results not only fit perfectly but explain what was remarked in experiments. |
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