Supersonic Flow

This course is devoted to high velocity compressible flows and to the study of pressure waves, expansion waves and shock waves. It is an extension of the core course Fluids and Energy and aims at deepening the knowledge in gas dynamics. Applications mainly concern external aerodynamics around high speed vehicles.

-Introduction.

• Conservation laws.
• Quasi-one-dimensional flows.
• Normal shock waves.
• Two-dimensional flows.
• Oblique shock waves and expansion waves.
• Interactions and unsteady waves.
• Linearized flows.