Hypersonic flow past slender bodies in dispersive hydrodynamics

G. A. El, V. V. Khodorovskii, A. V. Tyurina

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Abstract

The problem of two-dimensional steady hypersonic flow past a slender body is formulated for dispersive media. It is shown that for the hypersonic flow, the original 2+0 boundary-value problem is asymptotically equivalent to the 1+1 piston problem for the fully nonlinear flow in the same physical system, which allows one to take advantage of the analytic methods developed for one-dimensional systems. This type of equivalence, well known in ideal Euler gas dynamics, has not been established for dispersive hydrodynamics so far. Two examples pertaining to collisionless plasma dynamics are considered.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)334-340
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume333
Issue number3-4
Early online date12 Oct 2004
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dispersive shock
  • Hypersonic flow
  • Nonlinear flow past body

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