Vol 6 - Landau+Lifschitz - Fluid Mechanics · Problem 99.1

ONE-DIMENSIONAL GAS FLOW

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · one-dimensional-similarity-flow

Problem

A gas is in a semi-infinite cylindrical pipe terminated by a piston. At an initial instant the piston begins to move into the pipe with constant velocity UU. Determine the resulting flow, assuming the gas to be polytropic.

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