Admissibility region for rarefaction shock waves in dense gases

Journal article (2008)
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Process and Energy (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2008 Cambridge University Press
DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.1017/S0022112008000207
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06-03-2008

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 599, 2008

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Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Process and Energy

Abstract

In the vapour phase and close to the liquid–vapour saturation curve, fluids made of complex molecules are expected to exhibit a thermodynamic region in which the fundamental derivative of gasdynamic ? is negative. In this region, non-classical gasdynamic phenomena such as rarefaction shock waves are physically admissible, namely they obey the second law of thermodynamics and fulfil the speed-orienting condition for mechanical stability. Previous studies have demonstrated that the thermodynamic states for which rarefaction shock waves are admissible are however not limited to the ?