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The condition for the detachment of the shock wave from a wedge in a supersonic stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. C. Pack
Affiliation:
University College (Dundee), University of St Andrews

Extract

The flow past a wedge which is moving with supersonic velocity into a gas at rest has been treated by a number of investigators. In the analysis of the problem given in the present note, the condition for the detachment of the shock wave is examined, and an error in a previous treatment by Epstein is corrected.

Type
Research Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1948

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