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This chapter discusses the fundamental elements of one-dimensional, compressible fluid dynamics. These are essential to the behavior of high-energy-density matter. It begins by developing the theory of shock waves in fluid media, developing results for shock waves of arbitrary strength, entropy generation by shock waves, oblique shock waves, shock waves at interfaces, and the use of flyer plates to drive shock waves for measurements of equations of state. The chapter then introduces self-similar dynamics, which turns out to describe the expansions of matter known as rarefactions, and also to describe the blast waves produced by a brief deposition of energy. It then discusses the interaction of shock waves and rarefactions with each other and with interfaces where the density changes.
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Drake, R.P. (2018). Shocks and Rarefactions. In: High-Energy-Density Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67711-8_4
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