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Classic Papers in Shock Compression Science

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. James N. Johnson

    1. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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  2. Roger Chéret

    1. Commissariat a l’Energie Atonmique, Paris Cedex 15, France

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  • This Collection of classic papers in shock compression science makes available no only some of the most important classic papers on shock waves by Poisson, Rankine, Earnshaw, Riemann, and Hugoniot, but also some papers from this century on shocks in solids and fluids * It will be a vital reference for all researchers in the field

Part of the book series: Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena (SHOCKWAVE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Paper on the Theory of Sound

    • Siméon-Denis Poisso
    Pages 3-69

  3. On a Difficulty in the Theory of Sound

    • G. G. Stokes
    Pages 71-81

  4. On The Mathematical Theory of Sound

    • Rev. S. Earnshaw, M. A. Sheffield
    Pages 83-108

  5. The Propagation of Planar Air Waves of Finite Amplitude

    • B. Riemann
    Pages 109-132

  6. On The Thermodynamic Theory of Waves of Finite Longitudinal Disturbance

    • W. J. Macquorn Rankine
    Pages 133-148

  7. The Life and Work of Pierre Henri Hugoniot

    • R. Chéret
    Pages 149-159

  8. On the Propagation of Motion in Bodies and in Perfect Gases in Particular — I

    • H. Hugoniot
    Pages 161-243

  9. On the Propagation of Motion in Bodies and in Perfect Gases in Particular — II

    • H. Hugoniot
    Pages 245-360

  10. Aerial Plane Waves of Finite Amplitude

    • Lord Rayleigh
    Pages 361-408

  11. The Conditions Necessary for Discontinuous Motion in Gases

    • G. I. Taylor
    Pages 409-420

  12. On the Theory of Shock Waves for an Arbitrary Equation of State

    • H. A. Bethe
    Pages 421-495

  13. Shock Waves in Arbitrary Fluids

    • Hermann Weyl
    Pages 497-519

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 521-524
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The field of shock compression science has a long and rich history involving contributions of mathematicians, physicists and engineers over approximately two hundred years. The middle of the nineteenth century was an especially ac­ tive period with the contributions of Riemann, Rankine and Hugoniot, among others. The middle of the twentieth century saw another increase in activity re­ lated to shock compression of condensed matter as a result of military applica­ tions. It was also recognized that shock compression provided a means of sub­ jecting solids and liquids to extreme states of temperature and pressure difficult to achieve by static means. It has thus become an academic study in its own right. The principal modem contributions to this science were summarized in the landmark paper by Rice, McQueen and Walsh [Solid State Physics, Vol. 6, pp. 1-63, 1958]. As this field has continued to mature, interest has increased in tracing the early papers that have served as the foundations of the field. Cheret [Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 1989, Elsevier Sci. Pub. B. V. , pp 11-19, 1990) has contributed to this literature with his review of the life of Hugoniot on the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hugoniot's classic paper on the propagation of discontinuous waves in gases. This contribution prompted additional historical investigation involving the precursors to Hugoniot.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    James N. Johnson

  • Commissariat a l’Energie Atonmique, Paris Cedex 15, France

    Roger Chéret

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