Transonic Flow

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Abstract

In this chapter we are going to study a special case of an external flow for which the free stream speed of the flow is close to the speed of sound, i.e. the Mach number is about unity. Under this condition the flow is called ‘transonic’. In transonic flows, the linearized version of the potential equation is not sufficient to model the flow; therefore, we resort to nonlinear but simplified version of the potential flow. The local linearization concept introduced by Dowell will be implemented for the series solution of the nonlinear transonic velocity potential.

Keywords

Mach Number Lift Coefficient Transonic Flow Wave Drag Perturbation Potential 
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  1. 1.IstanbulTurkey

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