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500 Compressible flow <strong>of</strong> gases<br />

Fig. 11.6 Normal shock.<br />

and the theory was developed in detail by W. J. M. Rankine (1820–72) and<br />

the French physicist Henri Hugoniot (1851–87).<br />

In practice a shock is not absolutely abrupt, but the distance over which it<br />

occurs is <strong>of</strong> the order <strong>of</strong> only a few times the mean free path <strong>of</strong> the molecules<br />

(about 0.3 µm in atmospheric air). For most purposes, therefore, the changes<br />

in flow properties (pressure, density, velocity and so on) may be supposed<br />

abrupt and discontinuous and to take place across a surface termed the<br />

shock wave. (In photographs a thickness apparently greater than 0.3 µm<br />

may be observed because the wave is seldom exactly plane or exactly parallel<br />

to the camera axis.) We shall not concern ourselves here with what<br />

happens within the very narrow region <strong>of</strong> the shock itself, for such a study<br />

is very complex and involves non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Moreover,<br />

the analysis that follows will be restricted to a perfect gas because a general<br />

solution is algebraically complicated and explicit results cannot usually<br />

be obtained. Qualitatively, however, the phenomena discussed apply to<br />

any gas.<br />

11.5.1 Normal shock waves<br />

We consider first a normal shock wave, that is one perpendicular to the<br />

direction <strong>of</strong> flow. Such shocks may occur in the diverging section <strong>of</strong> a<br />

convergent-divergent nozzle or in front <strong>of</strong> a blunt-nosed body. We shall<br />

see that in every case the flow upstream <strong>of</strong> the shock is supersonic, while<br />

that downstream is subsonic and at higher pressure. We shall see too that<br />

the changes occurring in a shock are not reversible and so not isentropic.<br />

Our first objective is to determine the relations between quantities<br />

upstream and downstream <strong>of</strong> the shock. As shown in Fig. 11.6, quantities<br />

upstream are denoted by suffix 1 and those downstream by suffix 2. To<br />

obtain steady flow we consider the shock stationary and so the velocities u1<br />

and u2 are relative to it. As the shock region is so thin, any change in the<br />

cross-sectional area <strong>of</strong> a stream-tube from one side <strong>of</strong> the shock to the other<br />

is negligible, and so the continuity relation is simply<br />

ρ1u1 = ρ2u2<br />

(11.22)<br />

If effects <strong>of</strong> boundary friction are negligible, the momentum equation for<br />

a stream-tube <strong>of</strong> cross-sectional area A is<br />

(p1 − p2)A = m(u2 − u1)<br />

where m = ρAu is the mass flow rate. Thus<br />

p1 − p2 = ρ2u 2 2 − ρ1u 2 1<br />

(11.23)<br />

Since a 2 = pγ/ρ and Mach number M = u/a, eqn 11.23 may be written<br />

p1 − p2 = p2γ M 2 2 − p1γ M 2 1

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