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Compressible Fluid Dynamics

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Instructor: Prof. Anette Hosoi
Term: Spring 2004
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 15 other files · 4 web pages
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Compressible Fluid Dynamics

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Lecture 1: Mass Conservation, Euler’s Equation Sound Speed, Mach Number

Lecture 2: Thermo Ideal Gases Steady Isentropic Flow, Stagnation State

Lecture 3: Variable Area Flow, Choked Flow, Subsonic and Supersonic Nozzles, Restrictors

Lecture 4: Energy Equation Entropy Equation Flow with Fricton, Fanno Line

Lecture 5: Flow with Heat Addition, Rayleigh Line Shock Waves: Conservation Relations

Lecture 6: Hugoniot Relation, Normal Shocks, Moving Shocks, Weak and Strong Shocks

Lecture 7: Oblique Shocks Detonations

Lecture 8: Continuum Shock Wave Structure Condensation Discontinuities Unsteady 1D Flows: Finite Amplitude Waves, Characteristics, Riemann Invariants

Lecture 9: Piston Problems, Boundary Interactions, Shock Tubes

Lecture 10: Steady 2D Supersonic Flows: Mach Waves, Prandtl-Meyer Function, Expansion Fans