Fundamentals of Compressible Flow Mechanics - ver. 0.5.4

by Genick Bar-Meir

This book deals with an introduction to the flow of compressible substances (gases). The main difference between compressible flow and almost incompressible flow is not the fact that compressibility has to be considered. Rather, the difference is in two phenomena that do not exist in incompressible flow. The first phenomenon is the very sharp discontinuity (jump) in the flow in properties. The second phenomenon is the choking of the flow. Choking is when downstream variations don't effect the flow. Though choking occurs in certain pipe flows in astronomy, there also are situations of choking in general (external) flow.

Description from Open Textbook Library.

Publisher
Potto Project
Year
2026
Subjects
Engineering & Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Licence
Attribution, as Open Textbook Library states it
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects