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Use of a potential approximation to calculate flows with shock waves

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Errors arising in the calculation of ideal gas flows with shock waves of moderate intensity in a potential approximation are analyzed. Recommendations for decreasing them are given in the framework of the potential approximation.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 121–129, March–April, 1986.

The authors are grateful to V. A. Vostretsova for her help in the work.

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Grigorenko, V.L., Kraiko, A.N. Use of a potential approximation to calculate flows with shock waves. Fluid Dyn 21, 271–279 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050180

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