2 papers
astro-ph.EP2018
Physics of Meteor Generated Shock Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere - A Review
Elizabeth A. Silber, Mark Boslough, Wayne K. Hocking +2
Shock waves and the associated phenomena generated by strongly ablating meteoroids with sizes greater than a few millimeters in the lower transitional flow regime of the Earth's at…
astro-ph.EP2017
On Shock Waves and the Role of Hyperthermal Chemistry in the Early Diffusion of Overdense Meteor Trains
Elizabeth A. Silber, Wayne K. Hocking, Mihai L. Niculescu +2
Studies of meteor trails have until now been limited to relatively simple models, with the trail often being treated as a conducting cylinder, and the head (if considered at all) t…