The viscosity-capillarity admissibility criterion for shocks and phase transitions
Abstract
This paper considers admissibility criteria for non-linear conservation laws based on (i) viscosity and (ii) capillarity and viscosity. It is shown by means of specific examples that while (ii) yields results consistent with experiment for materials exhibiting phase transitions, e.g., a van der Waals fluid, (i) does not.
- Publication:
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Technical Summary Report Wisconsin Univ
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982wisc.reptQ....H
- Keywords:
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- Capillary Waves;
- Phase Transformations;
- Shock Waves;
- Viscosity;
- Compressible Fluids;
- Conservation Laws;
- Fluid Flow;
- Nonlinear Systems;
- Standards;
- Theorems;
- Traveling Waves;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer