Abstract
In this paper, we characterize a class of solutions to the unsteady 2-dimensional flow of a van der Waals fluid involving shock waves, and derive an asymptotic amplitude equation exhibiting quadratic and cubic nonlinearities including dissipation and diffraction. We exploit the theory of nonclassical symmetry reduction to obtain some exact solutions in the limit of vanishing dissipation. Because of the nonlinearities present in the evolution equation, one expects that the wave profile will eventually encounter distortion and steepening which in the limit of vanishing dissipation culminates into a shock wave; and once shock is formed, it will propagate by separating the portions of the continuous region. Here we have shown how the real gas effects, which manifest themselves through the van der Waals parameters ã and b̃ influence the wave characteristics, namely the shape, strength, and decay behavior of shocks.
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