Introduction

3.3.1 Introduction

Hugoniots equation can be used to model a normal shock wave by thermodynamic constants only as given by [JDAnderson1982]. As such this equations allows the relation of the pressure factor over the shock wave $p2/p1$ to the density factor over the same $ρ2/ρ1$ given a specific heat constant $γ$ without being related to a velocity or mach number. Note that the the hugoniot based shock wave compression does not yield exactly the same results as normal shock wave relations and in fact deviates from them at higher mach numbers. The following properties are computed:

p2/p1 — Table 2: Hugoniot compression properties

ρ2/ρ1 — Table 2: Hugoniot compression properties

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I	Symbol	Description

1	$p2/p1$	Pressure factor
2	$ρ2/ρ1$	Density factor