The "Limiting Line" in Mixed Subsonic and Supersonic Flow of Compressible Fluids

Abstract

Criterion for the breakdown of isentropic irrotational flow is discussed along with axially symmetric flow, limiting line, limiting hodograph and streamlines, envelope of characteristics in hodograph plane and lines of constant velocity in physical place, continuation of solution beyond limiting line, and general three-dimensional flow. Computational formulas are developed. Graphs indicate limiting line as the envelope of Mach waves, and streamline and velocity components in an axially symmetric flow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1944
Accession Number
ADA801400

Entities

People

  • Hsue-shen Tsien

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Axisymmetric Flow
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Differential Equations
  • Discontinuities
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Graphs
  • Heat Energy
  • Hodographs
  • Mach Number
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Shock Waves
  • Solid Bodies
  • Supersonic Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics