Fundamentals of gas dynamics
Abstract
A review of elementary principles is presented and aspects of control volume analysis are examined, taking into account flow dimensionality and average velocity, the transformation of a material derivative to a control volume approach, the conservation of mass, the conservation of energy, the characteristics of entropy, the pressure-energy equation, the stagnation concept, the stagnation pressure-energy equation, the consequences of constant density, and the momentum equation. An introduction to compressible flow is provided and problems of varying-area adiabatic flow are investigated. Attention is also given to standing normal shocks, moving and oblique shocks, the characteristics of Prandtl-Meyer flow, the properties of Fanno flow, aspects of Rayleigh flow, and reaction propulsion systems.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A
- Pub Date:
- October 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977STIA...7811956Z
- Keywords:
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- Flow Equations;
- Gas Dynamics;
- Propulsion System Performance;
- Shock Waves;
- Textbooks;
- Thermodynamic Properties;
- Adiabatic Flow;
- Compressible Flow;
- Mollier Diagram;
- Normal Shock Waves;
- Oblique Shock Waves;
- Prandtl-Meyer Expansion;
- Rayleigh Equations;
- Stagnation Flow;
- Tables (Data);
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer