SHOCK WAVES IN AN ELASTIC PIPELINE

A. N. Volobuev and A. P. Tolstonogov

UDC 532.5.52

The formation of shock waves from the solitary Gaussian and 
hyperbolic waves in an elastic pipeline has been investigated. It 
is shown that the parameters of these waves - the path length 
and the time of formation - ffer insignificantly from the analogous 
parameters of the shock waves formed from the sine waves. The evolution 
of the discontinuity surface in these shock waves has been considered.

Acad. S. P. Korolev Samara State Aerocosmic University, 34 Moscow Highway, 
Samara, 434086, Russia; email: volobuev@samaramail.ru. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 489-495, 
May-June, 2008. Original article submitted November 21, 2006; revision 
submitted February 15, 2007.