Structure of shock fronts in lonized gases

✍ Scribed by Max Krook

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 856 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(59)90035-1

✦ Synopsis

A method is given for the solution of the kinetic equations for the structure of a shock wave in an ionized gas. In an approximation of order Y, the kinetic equations are replaced by a set of (V -4) equations for moments of the velocity distributions.

The procedure is based on a representation of the distribution functions as sums of "modified Maxwell-functions.