Relativistic shock propagation in nonuniform media
Abstract
Strong shocks will propagate in much the same way whether they are non- or ultrarelativistic. An approximate law is proposed to describe the motion of a strong, adiabatic, arbitrarily relativistic shock through an initially nonrelativistic medium having any desired density distribution.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985PAZh...11..785G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Gas Dynamics;
- Relativistic Effects;
- Shock Wave Propagation;
- Adiabatic Conditions;
- Anisotropic Media;
- Approximation;
- Density Distribution;
- Inhomogeneity;
- Nonrelativistic Mechanics;
- Astrophysics