Energy fluxes of a strong adiabatic shock
ID: energy-fluxes-of-a-strong-adiabatic-shock
In the rest frame of a strong planar shock wave, a perfect gas has , and . Its downstream specific internal energy is . Multiplying by mass flux gives the internal-energy flux in the title. The lost bulk kinetic energy flux instead equals : this includes downstream pressure work and is the increase of specific enthalpy flux in the cold-upstream limit. Neither quantity is a temperature change per unit time of a fixed target mass without further information about that target.
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