High Speed Flow

High-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research- workers in fluid dynamics.

C. J. Chapman (Author)

9780521661690, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 March 2000

272 pages, 96 b/w illus. 8 tables 56 exercises
23.6 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.493 kg

'… can be recommended as a useful tool for a scientific study of high speed flows.' W. Wuest, Zentralblatt MATH

High-Speed Flow is a textbook suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and research-workers in fluid dynamics. It covers such topics as subsonic and supersonic flight, shock waves, high-speed aerofoils, and temperature changes. Starting from first principles, the book gives complete and elementary derivations of all results, and takes the reader to research level in the subject. The book contains many exercises and an extensive bibliography, providing access to the entire literature of the subject from 1860 to the present day, and including over two hundred items published since 1990. It contains the most extensive set of formulae on thermodynamics and oblique shock waves ever assembled.

1. Preliminaries
2. Governing equations
3. Thermodynamics
4. Smooth flow of an ideal fluid
5. Characteristic surfaces and rays
6. Shocks
7. Steady one-dimensional flow
8
Prandtl–Meyer expansion
9. Aerofoils
10. Characteristics for steady two-dimensional flow
11. Shock reflections and intersections
12. The hodograph method
13. Guide to high speed flow.

Subject Areas: Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Applied mathematics [PBW]