Shock-Wave Compression and Joule-Thomson Expansion (original) (raw)

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Wm. G. Hoover and Carol G. Hoover

Karl P. Travis

• Ruby Valley Research Institute, Highway Contract 60, Box 601 Ruby Valley, Nevada 89833, USA
• Immobilisation Science Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom

Abstract

Structurally stable atomistic one-dimensional shock waves have long been simulated by injecting fresh cool particles and extracting old hot particles at opposite ends of a simulation box. The resulting shock profiles demonstrate tensor temperature, Txx≠Tyy and Maxwell’s delayed response, with stress lagging strain rate and heat flux lagging temperature gradient. Here this same geometry, supplemented by a short-ranged external “plug” field, is used to simulate steady Joule-Kelvin throttling flow of hot dense fluid through a porous plug, producing a dilute and cooler product fluid.

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• Abstract
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• • Stationary one-dimensional shock waves.—
  • Joule-Thomson “throttling” flows.—
  • Joule-Thomson simulations.—
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144504– Published 10 April, 2014

• Received 14 November 2013

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