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Compressible flows with circular sector hodographs

I. The general solution for simple wedge flows and a theorem on sonic jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Maureen D. McLaughlin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
D. C. Pack
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Abstract

The general solution of Chaplygin's equation for the motion of an inviscid compressible fluid is obtained for ‘simple wedge flows’. Some particular examples are given and a discrepancy in earlier Russian papers explained. After a discussion of the properties of the velocity potential and the expression for the physical coordinates in terms of the hodograph variables, a general theorem on sonic jets is proved, namely, that the physical changes due to the presence of solid boundaries in the flow are completed within a finite distance in those directions in which the flow becomes finally a sonic jet.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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