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Table 1 Similarity exponent δ for planar and cylindrically symmetric flows and the density exponent θ with γ=1.4

From: Similarity method for the study of strong shock waves in magnetogasdynamics

M

θ

C 0

Computedδ

Guderley [[2]]δ

% Error

1

0.5

0.00

0.72855

0.74000

1.54%

1

0.5

0.02

0.72810

0.75000

2.92%

1

0.5

0.05

0.85610

0.81000

5.69%

1

1

0.00

0.64108

0.65000

1.37%

1

1

0.02

0.64105

0.65310

1.85%

1

1

0.05

0.64098

0.65510

2.16%

0

1

0.00

0.75675

0.71400

5.99%

0

1

0.02

0.75748

0.71100

6.54%

0

1

0.05

0.75869

0.75000

1.16%

0

0.5

0.00

0.85382

0.82500

3.49%

0

0.5

0.02

0.85428

0.80350

6.32%

0

0.5

0.05

0.85500

0.86000

0.58%