The Effects of Shock Waves on OFHC Copper

In this paper, the structure of shock waves in solid OFHC (oxygen free high conductive copper) copper has been addressed together with the impact of the material’s viscosity. Here, the shock front thickness is measured using thermodynamic parameters including temperature, pressure, change-in-entropy, and particle velocity. The non-dimensional form of thermodynamic variables is used to derive the analytical solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations. In this study, we have observed the shock front thickness of the order of micrometer. On the basis of published articles, we have taken the temperature and density-independent viscosity of the material to be 60 Pa sec and 55 Pa sec, respectively. These findings show that this model may be used in advanced research on the thickness of the shock front in various solid materials.