The flow of a compressible fluid past a curved surface / by Carl Kaplan.
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| Other title: | NACA Wartime Reports. Series L. |
| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
[1943]
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| Series: | Wartime Reports (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ;
no. L320. |
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| Abstract: | An iteration method is employed to obtain the flow of a compressible fluid past a curved surface. The first approximation which leads to the Prandtl-Glauert rule, is based on the assumption that the flow differs but little from a pure translation. The iteration process then consists in improving this first approximation in order that it will apply to a flow differing from pure translatory motion to a greater degree. The method fails when the Mach number of the undisturbed stream reaches unity but permits a transition from subsonic to supersonic conditions without the appearance of a compression shock. The limiting value at which potential flow no longer exits is indicated by the apparent divergence of the power series representing the velocity of the fluid at the surface of the solid boundary. |
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| Item Description: | NACA Wartime Report L-320. Originally issued as NACA as Advance Restricted Report L3K02 (November 1943) Prepared at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Virginia. |
| Physical Description: | 74 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, tables ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |