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Classic Papers in Shock Compression Science
Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena
ISBN/EAN: 9781461274612
Umbreit-Nr.: 4149244
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 524 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 28.09.2011
Auflage: 1/1998
- Zusatztext
- The field of shock compression science has a long and rich history involving contributions of mathematicians, physicists and engineers over approximately two hundred years. The middle of the nineteenth century was an especially ac tive period with the contributions of Riemann, Rankine and Hugoniot, among others. The middle of the twentieth century saw another increase in activity re lated to shock compression of condensed matter as a result of military applica tions. It was also recognized that shock compression provided a means of sub jecting solids and liquids to extreme states of temperature and pressure difficult to achieve by static means. It has thus become an academic study in its own right. The principal modem contributions to this science were summarized in the landmark paper by Rice, McQueen and Walsh [Solid State Physics, Vol. 6, pp. 1-63, 1958]. As this field has continued to mature, interest has increased in tracing the early papers that have served as the foundations of the field. Cheret [Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 1989, Elsevier Sci. Pub. B. V., pp 11-19, 1990) has contributed to this literature with his review of the life of Hugoniot on the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hugoniot's classic paper on the propagation of discontinuous waves in gases. This contribution prompted additional historical investigation involving the precursors to Hugoniot.
- Kurztext
- This Collection of classic papers in shock compression science makes available no only some of the most important classic papers on shock waves by Poisson, Rankine, Earnshaw, Riemann, and Hugoniot, but also some papers from this century on shocks in solids and fluids * It will be a vital reference for all researchers in the field