Figure 1: Results for the shock heating test of a cold, relativistically inflowing gas against a wall
using the explicit Eulerian techniques of Centrella and Wilson [73]. The plot shows the dependence
of the relative errors of the density compression ratio versus the Lorentz factor for two different
values of the adiabatic index of the flow, (triangles) and (circles) gases. The
relative error is measured with respect to the average value of the density over a region in the shocked
material. The data are from Centrella and Wilson [73] and the plot reproduces a similar one from
Norman and Winkler [291].
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