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Strong-shock Rankine-Hugoniot conditions
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Strong-shock Rankine-Hugoniot conditions
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2026-09-25
When the upstream
pressure
is negligible,
a
perfect-
gas
shock has
density ratio
(
γ
+
1
)
/
(
γ
−
1
)
. For
γ
=
5/3
, the downstream
density
is four
times
the upstream
density
.
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