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Strong shock in the uniformly expanding medium

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-04-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Propagation of the strong shock in the flat expanding Friedman universe is investigated using methods of dimension and similarity. Exact analytic solution of self-similar equations is obtained, determining dependences of the radius and velocity of the shock wave on time and radius. It is obtained, that in the expanding medium the velocity of shock decreases as t1/5\sim t^{-1/5}, what is slower than the shock velocity in the static uniform medium t3/5\sim t^{-3/5}. The radius of the shock wave in the expanding self-gravitating medium increases t4/5\sim t^{4/5}, more rapidly than the shock wave radius in the uniform non-gravitating medium t2/5\sim t^{2/5}. So, the shock propagates in the direction of decreasing density with larger speed, that in the static medium, due to accelerating action of the decreasing density, even in the presence of a self-gravitation.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1918,
  title  = {Strong shock in the uniformly expanding medium},
  author = {G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1918},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages. Shorter version is published in Gravitation and Cosmology, 2015, vol.21, pp. 236-240

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