NON-RELATIVISTIC RADIATION-MEDIATED SHOCK BREAKOUTS. I. EXACT BOLOMETRIC PLANAR BREAKOUT SOLUTIONS
NON-RELATIVISTIC RADIATION-MEDIATED SHOCK BREAKOUTS. I. EXACT BOLOMETRIC PLANAR BREAKOUT SOLUTIONS
The problem of a non-steady planar radiation mediated shock (RMS) breaking out from a surface with a power-law density profile, \rho\propto x^n, is numerically solved in the approximation of diffusion with constant opacity. For an appropriate choice of time, length and energy scales, determined by the breakout opacity, velocity and …