SolutionsMannualforthefourtheditionof
GasDynamics EthirajanRathakrishnan
Preface
Thismanualgivesthedetailedsolutionforalltheproblemsgivenattheend ofdifferentchaptersofthe3rdeditionofGasDynamics.Mysincerethanksto mydoctoralandmastersstudentswhohelpedmeincheckingandkeyinginthe solutionsofthismanual.
MysincerethankstotheContinuingEducationCentreofIndianInstituteof TechnologyKanpurforthefinancialsupporttopreparethismanual.
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Contents 1SomePreliminaryThoughts1 2BasicEquationsofCompressibleFlow3 3WavePropagation23 4One-DimensionalFlow25 5NormalShockWaves79 6ObliqueShockandExpansionWaves119 7PotentialEquationforCompressibleFlow157 8SimilarityRules161 9TwoDimensionalCompressibleFlows165 10Prandtl-MeyerFlow169 11FlowwithFrictionandHeatTransfer173 12MOC205 13MeasurementsinCompressibleFlow207 iii