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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 70 1 b Solution by
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Integrate any conservation equation from part (a) through a vanishingly thin control volume moving with shock speed . Its singular terms require . The stationary shock has , so all five fluxes are continuous. Substitution gives the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions for a perfect gas:Let the common mass flux be . Dividing the transverse conditions by proves and . Dividing the energy condition by shows that is unchanged. Thus tangential kinetic energies cancel when solving for the normal shock compression. No global equality of the entropy parameter across the shock has been assumed: physical dissipative shocks increase that parameter.
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