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This book offers comprehensive coverage of compressible flow phenomena and their applications, and is intended for undergraduate/graduate students, practicing professionals, and researchers interested in the topic. Thanks to the clear explanations provided of a wide range of basic principles, the equations and formulas presented here can be understood with only a basic grasp of mathematics.
The book particularly focuses on shock waves, offering a unique approach to the derivation of shock wave relations from conservation relations in fluids together with a contact surface, slip line or surface; in addition, the thrust of a rocket engine and that of an air-breathing engine are also formulated. Furthermore, the book covers important fundamentals of various aspects of physical fluid dynamics and engineering, including one-dimensional unsteady flows, and two-dimensional flows, in which obliqueshock waves and Prandtl-Meyer expansion can be observed.
List of contents
Propagation of pressure waves.- Motions of gas particles related to thermodynamics.- Basic equations for flow.- Discontinuity.- Quasi-one-dimensional flows.- System with source terms.- Two-dimensional flows.- Unsteady, one-dimensional flows.- Riemann problem.- Method of characteristics.- Generation and applications of compressible flows.- Shock-like phenomena.
About the author
Akihiro Sasoh is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1989. His research interests include compressible fluid dynamics and space propulsion. He has co-authored more than 200 journal articles and conference papers.
