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

Fig. 11.24<br />

✷<br />

Also, M = u/a and a = (γ RT) 1/2 .<br />

Hence<br />

u = M(γ RT) 1/2 = 2.4 × (1.4 × 287 J · kg −1 · K −1 × 135.2 K) 1/2<br />

u = 559.4 m · s −1<br />

Figure 11.24 shows how in practice the pressure varies with distance along<br />

a given nozzle, for various values <strong>of</strong> the pressure p2 beyond the nozzle. We<br />

may consider the flow into the nozzle to come from a large reservoir in which<br />

the velocity is always negligible so that the pressure there is the stagnation<br />

pressure p0.<br />

Assuming adiabatic, frictionless flow, combination <strong>of</strong> the eqns 11.5, 11.48<br />

and 11.55 gives<br />

� p<br />

p0<br />

� 2/γ<br />

� � (γ +1)/γ<br />

p<br />

−<br />

=<br />

p0<br />

� �<br />

γ − 1 m2 2γ<br />

A 2 p0ρ0<br />

PG, I, SF (11.60)<br />

Hence, for a particular mass flow rate and specified stagnation conditions,<br />

isentropic flow conditions can only be sustained within a nozzle if the relation<br />

between p and A defined by eqn 11.60 is satisfied.<br />

We now suppose that p0 is fixed but that the external pressure p2 may<br />

be varied at will. If p2 equals p0 there is no flow and the pressure is p0<br />

throughout the nozzle, as represented by the line OB in Fig. 11.24. Reduction<br />

<strong>of</strong> p2, however, causes a reduction in the pressure at the end <strong>of</strong> the nozzle; as<br />

the velocity has nowhere yet reached the sonic velocity this reduction can be

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