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Assumptions of thermodynamic & chemical equilibrium in fluid-dynamics
I am reading about the Euler equations of fluid dynamics from
Leveque's Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws. After introducing the mass, momentum and energy equations, some thermodynamic concepts ...
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Why does entropy jump across a shockwave?
Using the Rankine-Hugoniot relations for a shockwave, one can show that entropy jumps across the shock, so that the entropy difference between upstream and downstream conditions is given by
$$s_2 - ...
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