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- From: terry@asl.dl.nec.com
- Subject: Re: Responses to Dale Bass
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.234826.23344@asl.dl.nec.com>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:48:26 GMT
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- Hi folks,
-
- In article <1993Jan7.182337.19186@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
-
- > In article <1993Jan7.080252.15953@asl.dl.nec.com>
- > terry@asl.dl.nec.com writes:
- >
- > | I was interested mainly in _very_ thin shock wave media, not the
- > | conventional thick stuff...
- >
- > Why the 'thick' vs. 'thin' stuff? A shock is a shock. They are usually
- > pretty thin. A vacuum bubble collapsing does not necessarily create a
- > shock, it is also not necessarily energetic.
-
-
- Assume the following (highly non-equlibrium) initial conditions:
-
- (1) A very sharp, gaseous "bubble boundary" with a high degree of
- spherical symmetry,
-
- (2) A bubble interior that is an extremely hard vacuum, and
-
- (3) An initial velocity profile in which the gaseous surface is moving
- radially inward at a even rate either equal to, or in excess of,
- the velocity of sound in that gas under those surface conditions.
-
-
- First question: _Do_ you call this a "shock wave," or not? I have
- always understood a shock wave to be a result of pushing an object
- through another media at a rate beyond its normal sonic velocity.
-
- But what if the "object" is the wave front itself? And the media is
- a vacuum? What is the correct terminology when there will be _no_
- additional matter "piling up" at the front of the wave?
-
-
- Second question: Will the inboud surface velocity of the whatever-you-
- choose-to-call-it of my hypothetical scenario:
-
- (a) Always rapidly slow down
-
- (b) Sometimes remain at the same velocity
-
- (c) Sometimes accelerate rapidly
-
-
- For a what I always thought was a "shock wave", I'd say that (b) is a
- pretty reasonable answer. The media will limit the velocity. Also, no
- part of the original surface will ever reach the center of the bubble when
- the wave reaches the center.
-
- I do not see the hard vacuum scenario as being nearly as intuitive. For
- one thing some part of the original interior surface _will_ be the same
- matter that reaches the center. But only a very _small_ portion of that
- surface will ever reach it. One way or another the surface molecules in
- that case must "compete" to reach the center. Most will lose, a few will
- "win."
-
- The ones that "win" _must_ be accelerated to some degree relative to the
- ones that "lose," else the competition cannot be resolved. If there is
- enough diversity of inward momentum, such a "competition" will be resolved
- trivially by selection of the faster components (already a violation of
- your second law concerns, of course, but please don't forget Hilsche (sp?)
- vortex tubes).
-
- If there is not enough diversity of the momentum profiles, I say that you
- _will_ get an acceleration effect as in (c), whatever you wish to call it.
- I call it wedge-out, and I maintain (as originally in the UC draft) that
- this effect is _quantitatively_ different from milder effects such as a
- "classic" shock wave in which such a "competition" does not exist -- there
- will never be any of the original matter making it to the center.
-
-
- Well? Is there room for further analysis there, or not? I am truly
- interested in your opinion on this, Dale.
-
- Cheers,
- Terry
-
-
- P.S. -- Dieter; thanks; yes, words are dangerous. (And so are equations
- when they lack common sense and good analysis to back them up!)
-
- But I've nailed one or two items with this style of information-based,
- "search space" theorizing (e.g., the prediction of hydrogen forming
- atomic bands in metals), and I'm starting to get a bit more stubborn
- about it having some real value as an approach to physical problems.
-
-