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The Cole equation of state [1][2]
can be written, when atmospheric pressure is negligible, has the form
- .
In it, is a reference density around which the density varies
is an exponent and is a pressure parameter.
Usually, the equation is used to model a nearly incompressible system. In this case,
the exponent is often set to a value of 7, and is large, in the following
sense. The fluctuations of the density are related to the speed of sound as
where is the largest velocity, and is the speed of
sound (the ratio is Mach's number). The speed of sound can
be seen to be
Therefore, if , the relative density fluctuations
will be of about 0.01.
References
- ↑ R.H. Cole, Underwater Explosions. Princeton University Press 1948
- ↑
G.K. Batchelor, An introduction to fluid mechanics. Cambridge University Press 1974