The assumption is made that all students have had an introductory course dealing with the fundamentals of inviscid compressible flows such as the topics in section A below. This material will be reviewed at the beginning of the semester but a rapid pace. Since this material is critical for the development of the other topics, you must make sure early on that you have a thorough understanding of it.

In this course we will take this basic material and build on it, focusing largely on the areas listed below. The objectives are 1) to give you a firm understaning of the physical processes in these aspects of high speed flows and, 2) an understanding of the theory governing these phenomena, the assumption behind it, and the ensuing limitations. The course will be a balance between the theory and applications.

• Review material

basic thermodynamics, 1st and 2nd Laws

1-D conservation equations

steady isentropic flow

stationary normal and oblique shock waves

Prandtl-Meyer expansion

1-D flow with heat addition and friction

converging-diverging nozzles, on and off-design conditions

continuous and blowdown wind tunnel design, start-up and operations

intersection of shocks with solid surfaces, shocks with shocks, shocks with free boundaries, shocks with expansion supersonic aircraft inlets

physical aspects of conical flow

Taylor-Maccoll theory

numerical procedure

• Physics of Shock Waves

dissipative mechanics in shocks

estimation of shock thickness

moving normal shock waves

reflected shock waves

shock tubes, explosions

fundamental of acoustic theory

finite waves

unsteady expansion waves

introduction and general philosophy

characteristic lines

compatibility equations

supersonic nozzle design