Index

A, B

acoustic impedance, 569

adapted nozzle, 248

adapted supersonic air intake, 418

adiabatic

process, 46

wall, 108

aerodynamic

balance, 125

center, 10, 32

moment, 1

resultant, 8

stall, 29, 30

torsor, 32

aeroelastic coupling, 20

air intake, 115, 405

buzz, 658

area-Mach number relation, 216

Ariane 5, 362

attached shock, 342

Avogadro number, 82

axial force, 9

coefficient, 11

B

barotropic, 181

Bernoulli relation, 226

Betz method, 125

blow-down wind tunnels, 107

Boltzmann

constant, 82

equation, 85

boundary

conditions, 571

layer bleed system, 426

Bréguet’s formula, 15

buffeting, 658

bulk or volume viscosity, 95

Busemann pressure number, 447

C

calculable domains, 631

calorically perfect, 51

captation drag, 118

Carrière development method, 487

case of the over-expanded jet, 528

Cauchy problem, 439, 541

center of pressure, 8, 33

centered expansion, 455

wave, 559

centered Prandtl-Meyer expansion, 454

CFL criterion (Courant–Friedrich–Lewy), 642

characteristic

curve, 442

directions, 544

dissociation of temperature, 67

equations, 444

ionization temperature, 70

relations, 446

mesh, 504

chemical relaxation, 123

compressibility

correction, 663

factor, 54

compression wave, 460, 561, 645

condition of adherence, 107

conical

nozzles, 232

shock wave, 368

conicity factor, 242

contact surface, 584

continuity equation, 85

continuous

flow, 82

regime, 81

contoured (or ideal) nozzles, 232

conventional thrust, 242

at the pressure, 243

convergent-divergent supersonic nozzle, 215

corrector step, 641 ...

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