GALCIT Colloquium
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Collision of two plates in a gas
Hans Hornung,
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
The collision creates a very loud bang. The process is considered as a flow of a viscous, heat-conducting perfect gas. A five-dimensional parameter space is explored computationally, using the moving grid capability of the Eilmer software of the University of Queensland. It turns out that it exhibits remarkably interesting features. For example, there is a closest distance of approach and the plates rebound.
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