On the thickness of a mildly relativistic collisional shock wave

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dc.creatorLima, Jose A. S.
dc.creatorKandus, Alejandra
dc.creatorOpher, Reuven
dc.date2002-07-29
dc.date2002-10-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:28:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:28:57Z
dc.descriptionWe consider an imperfect relativistic fluid which develops a shock wave and discuss its structure and thickness, taking into account the effects of viscosity and heat conduction in the form of sound absorption. The junction conditions and the non linear equations describing the evolution of the shock are derived with the corresponding Newtonian limit discussed in detail. As happens in the non relativistic regime, the thickness is inversely proportional to the discontinuity in the pressure, but new terms of purely relativistic origin are present. Particularizing for a polytropic gas, it is found that the pure viscous relativistic shock is thicker than its nonrelativistic counterpart, while the opposite holds for pure heat conduction.
dc.description11 pages, no figures, title changed, improved introduction and discussion. New author added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207617
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207617
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D67:023002,2003
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.023002
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196563
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectFluid Dynamics
dc.titleOn the thickness of a mildly relativistic collisional shock wave
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