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The growth and decay of sonic waves in a radiating gas at high temperature

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The propagation of a sonic discontinuity in an optically thick gray gas at temperature 105°K or higher has been studied. The effects of radiation pressure and radiation energy density have been taken into account, while the profiles structured by radiant heat transfer are imbedded in the discontinuities under high temperature conditions of an optically thick medium. When the sonic discontinuity is propagating into a gas at rest, its velocity of propagation is found to be a constant which is the effective speed of sound in a radiating gas. The fundamental differential equations governing the growth of the sonic discontinuity are obtained and solved. It is concluded that if the sonic discontinuity is a compressive wave of order 1, then it terminates into a shock wave after a critical timet c which has been determined. But on the other hand, when the sonic discontinuity is an expansion wave of order 1, then it will decay and will vanish ultimately. Particular cases of interest have been studied in details.

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Es wird die Ausbreitung einer akustischen Diskontinuität in einem optisch dicken grauen Gas untersucht, bei einer Temperatur von 105°K und darüber. Die Effekte des Strahlungsdruckes und der Strahlungs-Energiedichte sind berücksichtigt worden. Die Profile, deren Struktur durch Strahlung bestimmt wird, werden in den Diskontinuitäten eingepasst unter der Bedingung hoher Temperaturen eines optisch dicken Mediums. Wenn die akustische Diskontinuität sich in einem ruhenden Gas ausbreitet, ist ihre Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit eine Konstante, nämlich die effektive Schallgeschwindigkeit des strahlenden Gases. Die grundlegenden Differentialgleichungen, welche das Wachstum der Diskontinuität bestimmen, werden aufgestellt und gelöst. Es wird gezeigt, dass wenn die akustische Diskontinuität von einer Druckwelle der Ordnung 1 gebildet wird, dann entwickelt sie sich in eine Stosswelle im Laufe einer kritischen Zeitt c, die bestimmt worden ist. Andererseits wird eine akustische Expansionswelle der Ordnung 1 abklingen und schliesslich verschwinden. Besondere Fälle wurden ausführlich untersucht.

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Srinivasan, S., Ram, R. The growth and decay of sonic waves in a radiating gas at high temperature. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP) 26, 307–313 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01590543

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