ON ONE CASE OF INTERACTION OF STATIONARY PLANE OBLIQUE 
SHOCK WAVES IN A POLYTROPIC GAS

S. K. Andilevko

UDC 534.2

The interaction of plane oblique shock waves, one of which 
overtakes the other, at an arbitrary angle in a polytropic gas with 
a constant polytropic index has been considered in the context of 
the hydrodynamic theory of shock waves. The pattern of the decay of 
a discontinuity arising in this case and the dependence of its dynamics 
on the angle of interaction of the waves have been investigated on 
the basis of numerical calculations. The characteristic angles at 
which a shock-wave configuration develops and their dependence on 
the velocity of initial shock waves have been determined.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: sandilevko@mail.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 90-95, January-February, 2006. 
Original article submitted November 27, 2003.