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Atomistic phenomena in dense fluid shock waves

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The shock structure problem is one of the classical problems of fluid mechanics and at least for non-reacting dilute gases it has been considered essentially solved. Here we present a few recent findings, to show that this is not the case. There are still new physical effects to be discovered provided that the numerical technique is general enough to not rule them out a priori. While the results have been obtained for dense fluids, some of the effects might also be observable for shocks in dilute gases.

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  1. ETH Zürich, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Sonneggstr. 3, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Stefan Schlamp

  2. Division of Computer Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA

    Bryan C. Hathorn

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Communicated by C. Needham.

This work was presented as an invited lecture at the 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Göttingen, Germany, July 15–20, 2007.

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Schlamp, S., Hathorn, B.C. Atomistic phenomena in dense fluid shock waves. Shock Waves 17, 397–407 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-008-0121-6

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