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There exist various criteria to be satisfied by the free stream Mach number \( M_{\infty } \), which makes the flow to be classified hypersonic when it is very high supersonic.

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GÜlçat, Ü. (2021). Hypersonic Flow. In: Fundamentals of Modern Unsteady Aerodynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60777-7_7

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