Similarity solution for isothermal flow behind the magnetogasdynamic cylindrical shock wave in a rotating non-ideal gas with the effect of the gravitational field

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a system of quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations, which describes the propagation of cylindrical shock waves in a rotating non-ideal gas with the effects of the gravitational field and the axial magnetic field. It is assumed that the flow is isothermal. The Lie group of transformations is used to generate the self-similar solutions of the considered problem in the medium of uniform density. The axial and azimuthal components of fluid velocity and magnetic field are supposed to be varying. We find the generators of the Lie group of transformations by employing the invariant surface criteria. We discovered four alternative solutions by selecting the arbitrary constants indicated in the generators' phrase. Only in three out of these four cases, the self-similar solutions exist. Two types of shock paths appear while solving the above cases. The power-law shock path appears in the first and third cases, while the exponential-law shock path appears in the second case. To find self-similar solutions, these cases have been solved numerically. We graphically show the distributions of flow variables behind the shock wave so that we can observe the effect on flow variables of the various values of the non-ideal parameter, Alfvén Mach number, adiabatic exponent, gravitational parameter, and ambient azimuthal velocity exponent. For the computational task, we used “MATLAB” software.