104 CHAPTER 6. NORMAL SHOCK
Now, after it was established, it is not a surprising result. After all, the shock
analysis started with the assumption that no momentum is change. As conclusion there
is no shock drag at stationary shock. This is not true for moving shock as it will be
discussed in section (6.3.1).
6.3 The Moving Shocks
In some situations, the shock wave is not stationary. This kind of situation arises in
many industrial applications. For example, when a valve is suddenly
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closed and a
shock propagates upstream. On the other extreme, when a valve is suddenly opened
or a membrane is ruptured, a shock occurs and propagates downstream (the opposite
direction of the previous case). In some industrial applications, a liquid (metal) is pushed
in two rapid stages to a cavity through a pipe system. This liquid (metal) is pushing
gas (mostly) air, which creates two shock stages. As a general rule, the shock can move
downstream or upstream. The last situation is the most general case, which this section
will be dealing with. There are more genera cases where the moving shock is created
which include a change in the physical properties, but this book will not deal with them
at this stage. The reluctance to deal with the most general case is due to fact it is
highly specialized and complicated even beyond early graduate students level. In these
changes (of opening a valve and closing a valve on the other side) create situations in
which different shocks are moving in the tube. The general case is where two shocks
collide into one shock and moves upstream or downstream is the general case. A specific
example is common in die–casting: after the first shock moves a second shock is created
in which its velocity is dictated by the upstream and downstream velocities.
Fig. -6.6. Comparison between stationary shock
and moving shock in ducts.
In cases where the shock velocity
can be approximated as a constant (in
the majority of cases) or as near con-
stant, the previous analysis, equations,
and the tools developed in this chapter
can be employed. The problem can be
reduced to the previously studied shock,
i.e., to the stationary case when the coor-
dinates are attached to the shock front.
In such a case, the steady state is ob-
tained in the moving control value.
For this analysis, the coordinates
move with the shock. Here, the prime
’ denote the values of the static coordinates. Note that this notation is contrary to
the conventional notation found in the literature. The reason for the deviation is that
this choice reduces the programing work (especially for object–oriented programing like
C++). An observer moving with the shock will notice that the pressure in the shock is
P
x
0
= P
x
P
y
0
= P
y
(6.42)
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It will be explained using dimensional analysis what is suddenly open