Keyword

shock waves

Description: Propagating disturbances marked by abrupt changes in properties such as pressure, density, or velocity, studied in physics and engineering.

Primary topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics (23%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q190688

OpenAlex ID: keywords/shock-waves

On kinematic waves II. A theory of traffic flow on long crowded roads

1955 · Michael James Lighthill, Gerald Beresford Whitham · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 4,604

Physics of shock waves and high-temperature hydrodynamic phenomena

1970 · Journal of Molecular Structure · 4,222

Fundamentals of Aerodynamics

2010 · AIAA Journal · 3,801

Shock Waves on the Highway

1956 · Paul I. Richards · Operations Research · 3,679

Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws

1992 · Randall J. LeVeque · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 3,665

On the Construction and Comparison of Difference Schemes

1968 · Gilbert Strang · SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis · 3,576

Shock Waves and Reaction—Diffusion Equations

1983 · Joel Smoller · Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften · 3,514

VIII. On the pressure developed in a liquid during the collapse of a spherical cavity

1917 · Lord Rayleigh · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 3,271

Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves

1976 · Applied mathematical sciences · 3,230

Singular hypersurfaces and thin shells in general relativity

1966 · W. Israel · Il Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/Il Nuovo cimento B · 3,092

The cell transmission model: A dynamic representation of highway traffic consistent with the hydrodynamic theory

1994 · Carlos F. Daganzo · Transportation Research Part B Methodological · 2,905

Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena

1967 · Elsevier eBooks · 2,865

Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II

1957 · P. D. Lax · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 2,850

Systems of conservation laws

1960 · Peter Lax, Burton Wendroff · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 2,651

Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Dispersion, dissipation, isotropy, Galilean invariance, and stability

2000 · Pierre Lallemand, Li-Shi Luo · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 2,274

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A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks

1950 · J. VonNeumann, R. D. Richtmyer · Journal of Applied Physics · 2,194

Hypersonic and high temperature gas dynamics

2013 · J. D. Anderson · 2,162

Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves

1949 · M. J. LIGHTHILL · Nature · 2,152

Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves

1973 · Peter D. Lax · Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · 1,938

Shock Waves and Reaction—Diffusion Equations

1994 · Joel Smoller · Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften · 1,903

Weak solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic equations and their numerical computation

1954 · Peter D. Lax · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 1,840

Finite difference method for numerical computation of discontinuous solutions of the equations of fluid dynamics

1959 · Godunov, Sergei, K., Bohachevsky, I. · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 1,820

Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium

2011 · Bruce T. Draine · Princeton University Press eBooks · 1,784

Finite difference methods for numerical computation of discontinous solutions of the equations of fluid dynamics

1959 · С. К. Годунов · Математический сборник · 1,683

Shock Compression of Condensed Matter–1991

1992 · Elsevier eBooks · 1,659

Works count: 53,440

Citation count: 587,300