Compressible flow

Sound speed, Mach waves, isentropic stagnation states, compressibility corrections, shocks and nozzles.

Newton, Laplace and the speed of sound

Newton, Laplace and the speed of sound

Ernst Mach’s shock photographs and the Mach cone

Ernst Mach's shock photographs and the Mach cone

Saint-Venant and Wantzel: isentropic stagnation states

Saint-Venant and Wantzel: isentropic stagnation states

The Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction

The Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction

Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions across a normal shock

Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions across a normal shock

De Laval’s converging-diverging nozzle

De Laval's converging-diverging nozzle