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Pressure in a pitot tube in a supersonic flow of rarefied gas

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Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 195–199, January–February, 1972.

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Kokin, G.A., Lysenko, E.V. Pressure in a pitot tube in a supersonic flow of rarefied gas. Fluid Dyn 7, 179–183 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205387

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