Compression waves and phase plots: Simulations
Abstract
Compression wave analysis started nearly 50 years ago with Fowles.[1] Coperthwaite and Williams [2] gave a method that helps identify simple and steady waves. We have been developing a method that gives describes the non-isentropic character of compression waves, in general.[3] One result of that work is a simple analysis tool. Our method helps clearly identify when a compression wave is a simple wave, a steady wave (shock), and when the compression wave is in transition. This affects the analysis of compression wave experiments and the resulting extraction of the high-pressure equation of state.
- Publication:
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Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2011
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3686409
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1108.5617
- Bibcode:
- 2012AIPC.1426..840O
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Data Analysis;
- Statistics and Probability;
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1063/1.3686409