Sachdev, P. L.,

Shock waves and explosions / P.L. Sachdev. - 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) - Chapman & Hall/CRC monographs and surveys in pure and applied mathematics ; 132 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The Piston Problem -- chapter 3 The Blast Wave -- chapter 4 Shock Propagation Theories: Some Initial Studies -- chapter 5 Some Exact Analytic Solutions of Gasdynamic Equations Involving Shocks -- chapter 6 Converging Shock Waves -- chapter 7 Spherical Blast Waves Produced by Sudden Expansion of a High Pressure Gas -- chapter 8 Numerical Simulation of Blast Waves.

9780429149252

10.1201/9781420035193 doi


Shock waves--Mathematics.
Differential equations, Hyperbolic--Numerical solutions.

QA377 / .S24 2004

518.64 / S121