November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
647 pages
21h 38m
English
Abstract
The technical foundation for hypersonic flight back and forth across the atmosphere as used and discussed in the main text is presented here including normal and oblique shocks, small disturbance theory, Prandtl–Meyer flow, Newtonian theory, and conical flow, among others.
Keywords
Normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, Newtonian flow, conical flow, small disturbance theory
Let us consider the high-speed flow of a gas under the simplest condition of steady (
) one-dimensional () flow. In this flow, we assume the gas is frictionless (μ=0), nonconducting ...