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Navier–Stokes computations are used to study the shock wave and contact surface propagation and the evolution of the distance between them (named hot flow length) in laminar flows in micro-shock tubes. These numerical results are compared with previous analytical results. In contrast to usual macroscopic shock tubes, the hot flow length and the contact surface propagation may have a different behavior due to the strong viscous effect of the wall boundary layer. For a low Mach number (\(M_{{{\text {s,i}}}}= 1.3\)) in a tube with a hydraulic diameter equal to \(200\,\upmu \hbox {m}\), the numerical results show that two flow regimes take place behind the shock wave when its intensity decreases along the capillary tube. The first one is similar to the well-known coupled boundary layer/core flow regime and the second one occurs when the boundary layer completely fills the tube section. In this last configuration, the contact surface velocity strongly decreases due to a propagation in a fully developed viscous flow and leads to a re-increase of the hot flow length along the tube.
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Zeitoun, D.E. Micro-shock tube flow behavior at low Mach number. Shock Waves 32, 121–126 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-021-01066-y
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