Compressible Fluid Dynamics

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1	Mass Conservation, Euler’s Equation Sound Speed, Mach Number	(PDF)
2	Thermo Ideal Gases Steady Isentropic Flow, Stagnation State	(PDF)
3	Variable Area Flow, Choked Flow, Subsonic and Supersonic Nozzles, Restrictors	(PDF)
4	Energy Equation Entropy Equation Flow with Fricton, Fanno Line	(PDF)
5	Flow with Heat Addition, Rayleigh Line Shock Waves: Conservation Relations	(PDF)
6	Hugoniot Relation, Normal Shocks, Moving Shocks, Weak and Strong Shocks	(PDF)
7	Oblique Shocks Detonations	(PDF)
8	Continuum Shock Wave Structure Condensation Discontinuities Unsteady 1D Flows: Finite Amplitude Waves, Characteristics, Riemann Invariants	(PDF)
9	Piston Problems, Boundary Interactions, Shock Tubes	(PDF)
10	Steady 2D Supersonic Flows: Mach Waves, Prandtl-Meyer Function, Expansion Fans	(PDF)
11-12	Term Paper Presentations