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Jain_Mor
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Hi guys and gals,
with respect to SNRs (or anything for that matter)
What is the difference between a shock wave and a blast wave?
Is it just that a blast wave is a sharp peak in the change in variables, where as a shock wave has a region behind it in which the variables gradually decrease?
Also read that the Sedov-Taylor or Self-Similar phase of an SNR is a blast wave, does this mean the other phases aren't?
Many thanks in advance, its confusing quite a lot of us.
with respect to SNRs (or anything for that matter)
What is the difference between a shock wave and a blast wave?
Is it just that a blast wave is a sharp peak in the change in variables, where as a shock wave has a region behind it in which the variables gradually decrease?
Also read that the Sedov-Taylor or Self-Similar phase of an SNR is a blast wave, does this mean the other phases aren't?
Many thanks in advance, its confusing quite a lot of us.