Normal shock-wave tables for air, argon, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and oxygen

Abstract

Equilibrium conditions behind the incident and reflected shock wave are evaluated using the method of Ref. 1. In this method the enthalpy of the gas is regarded as the sum of two parts: (i) the enthalpy evaluated for a gas consisting of rigid molecules having no internal excitation and (ii) a correction term to be added to (i), to take account of internal excitation.