Rankine–Hugoniot Conditions
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The Rankine–Hugoniot conditions, also referred to as Rankine–Hugoniot jump conditions or Rankine–Hugoniot relations, describe the relationship between the states on both sides of a
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) in a one-dimensional flow in fluids or a one-dimensional deformation in solids. They are named in recognition of the work carried out by Scottish engineer and physicist
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Pierre Henri Hugoniot Pierre-Henri Hugoniot (born in Allenjoie, Doubs, France on June 5, 1851 – died in Nantes, France in February 1887) who mostly lived in Montbéliard, (Franche-Comté). He was an inventor, mathematician, and physicist who worked on fluid mechanic ...
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al-06> In a coordinate system that is moving with the discontinuity, the Rankine–Hugoniot conditions can be expressed as: : where ''m'' is the mass flow rate per unit area, ''ρ''1 and ''ρ''2 are the
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of the fluid upstream and downstream of the wave, ''u''1 and ''u''2 are the fluid velocity upstream and downstream of the wave, ''p''1 and ''p''2 are the pressures in the two regions, and ''h''1 and ''h''2 are the ''specific'' (with the sense of ''per unit mass'') enthalpies in the two regions. If in addition, the flow is reactive, then the species conservation equations demands that :\omega_=\omega_=0,\quad i = 1,2,3,\dots,N, \qquad \text to vanish both upstream and downstream of the discontinuity. Here, \omega is the mass production rate of the ''i''-th species of total ''N'' species involved in the reaction. Combining conservation of mass and momentum gives us :\frac=-m^2 which defines a straight line known as the Michelson–Rayleigh line, named after
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, that has a negative slope (since m^2 is always positive) in the p-\rho^ plane. Using the Rankine–Hugoniot equations for the conservation of mass and momentum to eliminate ''u''1 and ''u''2, the equation for the conservation of energy can be expressed as the Hugoniot equation: : h_2 - h_1 = \frac\,\left(\frac+\frac\right)\,(p_2 - p_1). The inverse of the density can also be expressed as the
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, v=1/\rho. Along with these, one has to specify the relation between the upstream and downstream equation of state :f(p_1,\rho_1,T_1,Y_)=f(p_2,\rho_2,T_2,Y_) where Y_i is the mass fraction of the species. Finally, the calorific equation of state h=h(p,\rho,Y_i) is assumed to be known, i.e., :h(p_1,\rho_1,Y_)=h(p_2,\rho_2,Y_).


Simplified Rankine–Hugoniot relations

The following assumptions are made in order to simplify the Rankine–Hugoniot equations. The mixture is assumed to obey the
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, so that relation between the downstream and upstream equation of state can be written as :\frac=\frac=\frac where R is the
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and the mean
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\overline W is assumed to be constant (otherwise, \overline W would depend on the mass fraction of the all species). If one assumes that the
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at constant pressure c_p is also constant across the wave, the change in enthalpies (calorific equation of state) can be simply written as :h_2-h_1 = -q + c_p(T_2-T_1) where the first term in the above expression represents the amount of heat released per unit mass of the upstream mixture by the wave and the second term represents the sensible heating. Eliminating temperature using the equation of state and substituting the above expression for the change in enthalpies into the Hugoniot equation, one obtains a Hugoniot equation expressed only in terms of pressure and densities, :\left(\frac\right)\left(\frac-\frac\right) - \frac\left(\frac + \frac\right)(p_2-p_1) = q, where \gamma is the
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. Hugoniot curve without heat release (q=0) is often called as Shock Hugoniot. Along with the Rayleigh line equation, the above equation completely determines the state of the system. These two equations can be written compactly by introducing the following non-dimensional scales, :\tilde p = \frac,\quad \tilde v = \frac, \quad \alpha = \frac, \quad \mu = \frac. The Rayleigh line equation and the Hugoniot equation then simplifies to :\begin \frac &= -\mu \\ \tilde p &= \frac. \end Given the upstream conditions, the intersection of above two equations in the \tilde p-\tilde v plane determine the downstream conditions. If no heat release occurs, for example, shock waves without chemical reaction, then \alpha=0. The Hugoniot curves asymptote to the lines \tilde v = (\gamma-1)/(\gamma+1) and \tilde p=-(\gamma-1)/(\gamma+1), i.e., the pressure jump across the wave can take any values between 0\leq \tilde p<\infty, but the specific volume ratio is restricted to the interval (\gamma-1)/(\gamma+1)\leq \tilde v \leq 2\alpha + (\gamma+1)/(\gamma-1) (the upper bound is derived for the case \tilde p\rightarrow 0 because pressure cannot take negative values). The
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is where Rayleigh line is tangent to the Hugoniot curve. If \gamma=1.4 (diatomic gas without the vibrational mode excitation), the interval is 1/6\leq \tilde v\leq 2\alpha + 6, in other words, the shock wave can increase the density at most by a factor of 6. For monatomic gas, \gamma=5/3, therefore the density ratio is limited by the interval 1/4\leq \tilde v\leq 2\alpha + 4. For diatomic gases with vibrational mode excited, we have \gamma=9/7 leading to the interval 1/8\leq \tilde v\leq 2\alpha + 8. In reality, the specific heat ratio is not constant in the shock wave due to molecular dissociation and ionization, but even in these cases, density ratio in general do not exceed the factor 11-13.


Derivation from Euler equations

Consider gas in a one-dimensional container (e.g., a long thin tube). Assume that the fluid is
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(i.e., it shows no viscosity effects as for example friction with the tube walls). Furthermore, assume that there is no heat transfer by conduction or radiation and that gravitational acceleration can be neglected. Such a system can be described by the following system of
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s, known as the 1D
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, that in conservation form is: where *\rho, fluid
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, *u, fluid
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, *e, specific
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of the fluid, *p, fluid
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, and *E^t = \rho e + \rho\tfracu^2, is the total energy density of the fluid, /m3 while ''e'' is its specific internal energy Assume further that the gas is calorically ideal and that therefore a polytropic equation-of-state of the simple form is valid, where \gamma is the constant ratio of specific heats c_p/c_v. This quantity also appears as the ''polytropic exponent'' of the polytropic process described by For an extensive list of compressible flow equations, etc., refer to
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Report 1135 (1953).me-53> Note: For a calorically ideal gas \gamma is a constant and for a thermally ideal gas \gamma is a function of temperature. In the latter case, the dependence of pressure on mass density and internal energy might differ from that given by equation ().


The jump condition

Before proceeding further it is necessary to introduce the concept of a ''jump condition'' – a condition that holds at a discontinuity or abrupt change. Consider a 1D situation where there is a jump in the scalar conserved physical quantity w, which is governed by integral conservation law for any x_1, x_2, x_1, and, therefore, by partial differential equation for smooth solutions. Let the solution exhibit a jump (or shock) at x=x_(t), where x_ < x_(t) and x_(t) < x_, then The subscripts 1 and 2 indicate conditions ''just upstream'' and ''just downstream'' of the jump respectively, i.e. w_1 = \lim_ w\left(x_s - \epsilon\right) and Note, to arrive at equation () we have used the fact that dx_1/dt = 0 and dx_2/dt = 0. Now, let x_1 \to x_s(t) - \epsilon and x_2 \to x_s(t) + \epsilon, when we have \int_^ w_t \, dx \to 0 and \int_^ w_t \, dx \to 0, and in the limit where we have defined u_s = dx_s(t)/dt (the system ''characteristic'' or ''shock speed''), which by simple division is given by Equation () represents the jump condition for conservation law (). A shock situation arises in a system where its ''characteristics'' intersect, and under these conditions a requirement for a unique single-valued solution is that the solution should satisfy the ''admissibility condition'' or ''entropy condition''. For physically real applications this means that the solution should satisfy the ''Lax entropy condition'' where f'\left(w_1\right) and f'\left(w_2\right) represent ''characteristic speeds'' at upstream and downstream conditions respectively.


Shock condition

In the case of the hyperbolic conservation law (), we have seen that the shock speed can be obtained by simple division. However, for the 1D Euler equations (), () and (), we have the vector state variable \begin\rho & \rho u & E\end^\mathsf and the jump conditions become Equations (), () and () are known as the ''Rankine–Hugoniot conditions'' for the Euler equations and are derived by enforcing the conservation laws in integral form over a control volume that includes the shock. For this situation u_s cannot be obtained by simple division. However, it can be shown by transforming the problem to a moving co-ordinate system (setting u_s' := u_s - u_1, u'_1 := 0, u'_2 := u_2 - u_1 to remove u_1) and some algebraic manipulation (involving the elimination of u'_2 from the transformed equation () using the transformed equation ()), that the shock speed is given by where c_=\sqrt is the speed of sound in the fluid at upstream conditions.hi-99>


Shock Hugoniot and Rayleigh line in solids

For shocks in solids, a closed form expression such as equation () cannot be derived from first principles. Instead, experimental observations indicate that a linear relation Though a linear relation is widely assumed to hold, experimental data suggest that almost 80% of tested materials do not satisfy this widely accepted linear behavior. See Kerley, G. I, 2006, "The Linear US-uP Relation in Shock-Wave Physics", ; for details. can be used instead (called the shock Hugoniot in the ''u''s-''u''p plane) that has the form where ''c''0 is the bulk speed of sound in the material (in uniaxial compression), ''s'' is a parameter (the slope of the shock Hugoniot) obtained from fits to experimental data, and is the particle velocity inside the compressed region behind the shock front. The above relation, when combined with the Hugoniot equations for the conservation of mass and momentum, can be used to determine the shock Hugoniot in the ''p''-''v'' plane, where ''v'' is the specific volume (per unit mass):Poirier, J-P. (2008) "Introduction to the Physics of the Earth's Interior", Cambridge University Press. Alternative equations of state, such as the
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may also be used instead of the above equation. The shock Hugoniot describes the locus of all possible
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s a material can exist in behind a shock, projected onto a two dimensional state-state plane. It is therefore a set of equilibrium states and does not specifically represent the path through which a material undergoes transformation. Weak shocks are
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and that the isentrope represents the path through which the material is loaded from the initial to final states by a compression wave with converging characteristics. In the case of weak shocks, the Hugoniot will therefore fall directly on the isentrope and can be used directly as the equivalent path. In the case of a strong shock we can no longer make that simplification directly. However, for engineering calculations, it is deemed that the isentrope is close enough to the Hugoniot that the same assumption can be made. If the Hugoniot is approximately the loading path between states for an "equivalent" compression wave, then the jump conditions for the shock loading path can be determined by drawing a straight line between the initial and final states. This line is called the Rayleigh line and has the following equation:


Hugoniot elastic limit

Most solid materials undergo
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deformations when subjected to strong shocks. The point on the shock Hugoniot at which a material transitions from a purely
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state to an elastic-plastic state is called the Hugoniot elastic limit (HEL) and the pressure at which this transition takes place is denoted ''p''HEL. Values of ''p''HEL can range from 0.2 GPa to 20 GPa. Above the HEL, the material loses much of its shear strength and starts behaving like a fluid.


See also

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Euler equations (fluid dynamics) In fluid dynamics, the Euler equations are a set of quasilinear partial differential equations governing adiabatic and inviscid flow. They are named after Leonhard Euler. In particular, they correspond to the Navier–Stokes equations with zer ...
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Shock polar The term ''shock polar'' is generally used with the graphical representation of the Rankine–Hugoniot equations in either the hodograph plane or the pressure ratio-flow deflection angle plane. The polar itself is the locus of all possible states a ...
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Mie–Grüneisen equation of state The Mie–Grüneisen equation of state is an equation of state that relates the pressure and volume of a solid at a given temperature.Roberts, J. K., & Miller, A. R. (1954). Heat and thermodynamics (Vol. 4). Interscience Publishers.Burshtein, A. I. ...
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Atmospheric focusing Atmospheric focusing is a type of wave interaction causing shock waves to affect areas at a greater distance than otherwise expected. Variations in the atmosphere create distortions in the wavefront by refracting a segment, allowing it to converge ...


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