Plane Shock Waves in Quantum Gases at Very Low Temperatures.
Abstract
The proposed shock model, a quantum analog of the classical approach, attempts to describe the effects due to strong shocks passing through an elementary particle quantum gas of any given degree of degeneracy. This model is used to calculate shock thicknesses in helium gas for various Mach numbers and for a wide range of degeneracy. Significant differences between normal helium, He-4 (obeying Bose-Einstein statistics), and the isotope, He-3 (obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics), are evident.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976PhDT........19R
- Keywords:
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- Physics: Fluid and Plasma;
- Helium;
- Helium Isotopes;
- Low Temperature;
- Monatomic Gases;
- Shock Wave Interaction;
- Distribution Functions;
- Kinetic Theory;
- Mach Number;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Theorems;
- Solid-State Physics