An adjustable law of motion for relativistic spherical shells

• Authors: Lorenzo Zaninetti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A classical and a relativistic law of motion for an advancing shell are deduced applying the thin layer approximation. A new parameter connected with the quantity of absorbed matter in the expansion is introduced; this allows the matching of theory with observation.

Keywords

EN

relativistic fluid dynamics; relativistic plasmas; supernova remnants

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 32-39

Dates

published

1 - 2 - 2012

online

3 - 12 - 2011

Contributors

author

Lorenzo Zaninetti

• Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P.Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-011-0089-1