Compressible flow#
Sound speed, Mach waves, isentropic stagnation states, compressibility corrections, normal and oblique shocks, Prandtl-Meyer expansions, nozzles, and Fanno and Rayleigh duct flow.
Newton, Laplace and the speed of sound (1687-1816)
Newton, Laplace and the speed of sound (1687-1816)
Ernst Mach’s shock photographs and the Mach cone (1887)
Ernst Mach's shock photographs and the Mach cone (1887)
Saint-Venant and Wantzel: isentropic stagnation states (1839)
Saint-Venant and Wantzel: isentropic stagnation states (1839)
The Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction (1928)
The Prandtl-Glauert compressibility correction (1928)
Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions across a normal shock (1870-1889)
Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions across a normal shock (1870-1889)
Meyer’s oblique shock and the theta-beta-M relation (1908)
Meyer's oblique shock and the theta-beta-M relation (1908)
Rayleigh flow: heat addition and thermal choking (1910)
Rayleigh flow: heat addition and thermal choking (1910)