Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ›› 2024, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (4): 2196-2214.doi: 10.1007/s42967-023-00320-7

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Effect of Dynamic Pressure on the Shock Structure and Sub-shock Formation in a Mixture of Polyatomic Gases

Tommaso Ruggeri1, Shigeru Taniguchi2   

  1. 1 Department of Mathematics & Alma Mater Research Center on Applied Mathematics, University of Bologna, Via Saragozza, 8, 40123 Bologna, Italy;
    2 Department of Creative Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College, 5-20-1 Shii, Kitakyushu 802-0985, Japan
  • Received:2023-05-03 Revised:2023-09-11 Accepted:2023-09-14 Published:2024-12-20
  • Contact: Tommaso Ruggeri,E-mail:tommaso.ruggeri@unibo.it;Shigeru Taniguchi,E-mail:taniguchi.shigeru@kct.ac.jp E-mail:tommaso.ruggeri@unibo.it;taniguchi.shigeru@kct.ac.jp
  • Supported by:
    N.R. and G.T. were supported in part by the NSERC RGPIN 50503-10842. H.S. was supported in part by the AFOSR MURI FA9550-21-1-0084 and the NSF DMS-1752116. The authors would also like to thank Rachel Ward for valuable discussions.

Abstract: We study the shock structure and the sub-shock formation in a binary mixture of rarefied polyatomic gases, considering the dissipation only due to the dynamic pressure. We classify the regions depending on the concentration and the Mach number for which there may exist the sub-shock in the profile of shock structure in one or both constituents or not for prescribed values of the mass ratio of the constituents and the ratios of the specific heats. We compare the regions with the ones of the corresponding mixture of Eulerian gases and perform the numerical calculations of the shock structure for typical cases previously classified and confirm whether sub-shocks emerge.

Key words: Shock structure, Mixture of gases, Rational extended thermodynamics(RET), Polyatomic gases, Dynamic pressure, Sub-shock formation, Bulk viscosity