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• temperature shock — physiological stress to a fish caused by a sudden or rapid temperature change. A change greater than three degrees an hour in some definitions …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Shock cooling (engines) — Shock cooling refers to the theory that damage to engines (particularly air cooled aviation piston engines) may occur because of an excessively rapid decrease in temperature.The situation where rapid cooling arises is on descent from altitude. In …   Wikipedia

• shock wave — n. 1. a surface of discontinuity in a flow of air, sound, etc. set up when the flow suddenly changes from subsonic to supersonic, characterized by marked increases in temperature, pressure, and density of the flow, as in supersonic flow about an… …   English World dictionary

• Shock tube — A shock tube is a device used primarily to study gas phase combustion reactions. Shock tubes (and related shock tunnels) can also be used to study aerodynamic flow under a wide range of temperatures and pressures that are difficult to obtain in… …   Wikipedia

• Shock wave — Bombshock redirects here. For the Transformers character, see Micromasters#Bombshock. For other uses, see shockwave. Schlieren photograph of an attached shock on a sharp nosed supersonic body. A shock wave (also called shock front or simply shock …   Wikipedia

• shock wave — 1. a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body. 2. a repercussion from a startling event or upheaval; series of… …   Universalium

• Shock (circulatory) — Acute shock redirects here. For the psychological condition, see Acute stress reaction. Shock ICD 10 many incl. R57 ICD 9 785 DiseasesDB …   Wikipedia

• Shock capturing methods — In computational fluid dynamics, shock capturing methods are a class of techniques for computing inviscid flows with shock waves. Computation of flow through shock waves is an extremely difficult task because such flows results in sharp,… …   Wikipedia

• shock wave — An area or sheet of discontinuity (i.e., of abrupt changes in conditions) set up in a supersonic field of flow, through which the fluid undergoes a finite decrease in velocity accompanied by a marked increase in pressure, density, temperature,… …   Aviation dictionary

• shock diamonds — A commonly observed diamond shaped reflection, brilliantly luminous from an afterburner of jet engines, the exhaust of rockets, and space shuttles. These shock diamonds are disc shaped shock waves, called Mach discs, which are formed as shock… …   Aviation dictionary

• shock tube — noun : a long closed tube of uniform cross section used for studying the transient effects of a shock wave usually produced when a diaphragm dividing the tube into two chambers containing gas at different pressures is ruptured * * * shock tube,… …   Useful english dictionary